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

Mikolaj Machowski mikmach at wp.pl
Fri Mar 28 21:45:46 GMT 2008


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------- Additional Comments From mikmach wp pl  2008-03-28 22:45 -------
No comments on patch itself, still compiling.

1. Don't agree with Dotan's proposal. ", " is too strict, requiring of
   whitespace for such casual thing is hard to remember.
2. I think that this field should be used also for assigning of existing
   tags. We have 3 possible scenarios:

   a) user wants to create new tags; focus onto new widget, type
      string of tags, all are created - wonderful
   b) user wants to only assign existing tags; uses shortcuts or dialog
      like as message moving in KMail - wonderful (with caveat*)
   c) user wants to create new tags AND assign existing - for such basic
      functionality (s)he has to perform functions in two different
      interfaces - not so wonderful, frankly - far from it; with use of
      new widget for both actions it will be simple and fast

   * caveat for KMail moving dialog - only one tag at the moment; for me
   it is major one - for whole time evolution in tag assignment was
   going to speed up assignation of multiple tags, now we are
   introducing completely new interface which is committed for doing one
   thing at the time

   Judging by myself, after several months of use, there will be core
   foundation of tags used very often and probably one or two new for
   importing session of describing of 100-200 pictures.

One comment about shortcuts. Yes they are theoretically unlimited, but
practically they are *very* limited. Many Ctrl-x (x as "something", not
literally) are reserved for global actions, many Alt-x are reserved for
hotkeys or even input of regular charactes (think AltGr), besides
- together with Ctrl-Fx and Alt-Fx will be probably reserved for custom
global task of user (and last two are not very convenient).
Alt-Ctrl-x shortcus are only for people with big hands.  So, practical
reserve of keyboard shortcuts is limited.

If digiKam migrate to system of one key shortcuts (like GIMP, Inkscape)
it would change situation but only marginally. With one key shortcuts
modus operandi is: one hand on keyboard, one hand on mouse. With such
setup number of combined shortcuts you can comfortably execute with one
hand also isn't big.



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