[Digikam-devel] [Bug 139547] tag hierarchy automatic fill

[Heiner Lamprecht]

On Thursday 04 January 2007 16:22, glaurent at telegraph-road.org 
wrote:
>
> > _Nobody_ will use Tags hierarchies... Really ???
>
> Almost no non-geek user, yes. Perhaps a few geeks will, but it
> won't be long before they give up because it's basically boring
> grunt work, and the current state of the technology has already
> proven it's pointless. Who wants to maintain tags for thousands
> of photos ?

Me !!!

And I think, even a lot of other people as well.

Okay, taking photographs is more fun than tagging them ;-)  But 
trying to search for photos without a good tagging schema is hell.

> And a hierarchy makes it even more fragile, suppose I 
> decide I need to change it, how will digikam cope with that ?
> Will I have to re-tag all my pictures ? It's a huge can of worms.

Honestly, I don't know.  I never tried to reorganize my tags so far.  
But I agree, that digikam should take fare of that.

> Sorry, I really think this tagging scheme is a waste of your
> time. As you say, yes, I certainly won't use it (especially if
> there's a free-form tagging like with flickr - please don't force
> me to 'create tags', let me just type words in a lineedit).

Ouh.  If you do it this way, then there is really a high risk for 
having lots of similar tags for the same thing, because of 
typos, ...

But to speed up tagging, it might be a good idea to save the last 
five tags used.  Than it's easier to reuse tags while tagging all 
images in an album.

An other possibility would be to add auto completion to the line 
edit.  But this completion should search on the actual tag name, 
not on the hierarchy.  Of course, the hierarchy shall be displayed.  
That would be similar to the searching field in the tag list, but 
directly for entering/selecting tags.


    Heiner

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