[Digikam-devel] [Bug 114465] Wish: simpler entry of tags

[Arnd Baecker]

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------- Additional Comments From arnd.baecker web de  2007-11-12 08:57 -------
Yes, I love this idea! It very much corresponds to the way I do the tagging 
right now. Tagging is done  on a per album basis and
each album groups around one "event", like a birthday party, a hike, 
a day at the beach or in town etc. 

Each event has a typical cluster of tags which are appropriate. 
Therefore it would be nice if for each situation a  (pre-selected) 
collection of tags (or parts of the tag-tree) could be chosen.

- Where to put such a "Tags collection" in the GUI?
  Maybe it could be added as another TAB in the "comments/tags" sidebar?
  On the other hand, it might be better to have as much space
  as possible so that no scrolling is necessary.
  Therefore maybe another window, below the icon view, would be better,
  which could display several different tags collections
  (see the attempt of a mock-up in the following attachment)?
  Another option is to have a fully separate window in
  which the tagging is done (not sure if I like this that much).

  As usual, it is not obvious how to get this right ... ;-)

- How to populate such tags collections?
  a) Maybe the easiest is to start from one album whose images have been
     tagged and then just say: 
     "Make a tag collection out of all present tags"
  b) adding a new tag (in the usual way) would automatically
     add it to the active collection    
  c) Creating a tag collection from scratch,
     item by item, should be possible as well.
  d) Then there might be some super-intelligent pre-creation
     of tag-collections, which does a statistical analysis of
     all the tags combinations in existing albums and out
     of this magically identifies the most common clusters...
     (could be a nice Google Summer of Code project ;-).

Of course, the before disussed free-form entry of tags should
be possible as well. I.e., I don't see these ways of adding tags
as excluding each other.

(Keyboard shortcuts might be more difficult, as the simple ones
like Function keys etc. are already in use. <asbestos suit on>On the other hand,
we haven't used any emacs style keyboard shortcuts yet ;=)<asbestos suit off>)

Best, Arnd