[Digikam-devel] Usability review of tagging in Digikam 0.8

[Renchi Raju]

i will just go ahead and expand on joern's email (i have listed only those 
items where there is disagreement).

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Joern Ahrens wrote:

> 1.3) no

When you click on a tag, it will show items which are in subtags. this 
behavior has changed from the 0.7.x where showing items in subtags was 
optional. i don't see any particular advantage in having Supertags 
automatically assigned. Also, the tag names are shown in thumbnail and if 
you have a lot of tag names (which will happen when you automatically 
assign supertags).

2.1)

if you have some ideas about this later, we will be happy to hear 
them.

> 3.3.1) no, now you're able to add a name to the tag and asign an icon in one
> step.

i have the same concern. moving it to inplace editing requires to do these 
actions in two steps. and the tag creation dialog is consistent with other 
"creation" dialogs (Albums/Search).

> 3.3.2) agree, but might be confusing to the user

here, i agree with Tina.

> 3.3.3) interesting, agree

i would also like to add a combobox at the bottom of tags frame, which 
has a list of recently assigned tags which you can select quickly (usually 
when you are tagging a bunch of photos, you most likely will be using
the same tags again and again and this provide quick access to them).

> 4) agree. adding a button to the toolbar might be a first solution. What do
> you think about an additional view in the image editor (hideable), where you
> can add tags, edit comment. Something like the "Edit & comments" dialog,
> but not as a modal view, but integrated in the image view.

what joern is referring to is a planned right sidebar view (similar to the 
one in the main thumbnail window). also the context menu for the image 
editor can have assign/remove tags similar to the thumbnail window.

renchi