[Digikam-users] feature-request: optional view of children of tag

[Tom Albers]

Op zondag 30 oktober 2005 19:09, schreef Harald Finster:
> Hello,
>
> Tom Albers wrote:
> > That should work in 0.8. Are you running a beta of 0.8? If so, please
> > file a bug.
>
> after having solved some trouble with libkipi, I finally managed to
> run 0.8.0 - looks very good!
>
> And, as software-users are never happy - even with the best software,
> I would like to suggest one more feature (probably more complex to
> implement):
>
> It would be nice to be able to tag tags.
>
> The following example might illustrate, why:
>
> Assume, you have a complex industrial plans consisting
> of severals buildings:
>
> I use tags to assign the substructures to images
>
> steel-mill-xy
>        blast-furnace-section-xy
>            blast-furnace-xy-no1 <- image-of-bf1-a image-of-bf1-b
> image-of-bf1-and-bf2 ... blast-furnace-xy-no2 <- image-of-bf2-a
> image-of-bf2-b image-of-bf1-and-bf2 ... water-tower-xy-no1                 
>      ...
>            engine-house-xy                          ...
>        oxygen-factory-xy
>            converter-xy-building
>            gas-holder-xy-no1
>        hot-rolling-mill-xy
>
>
> now, I would also like to categorize my images.
> However, instead of directly categorizing the images, it would
> be nice to categorize the substructures by adding tags, i.e.
>
> industry
>       mining
>       steel-industry <- steel-mill-xy
>           blast-furnaces <- blast-furnace-no1 blast-furnace-no2
>           oxygen-factories <- oxygen-factory
>           rolling-mills
>               hot-rolling-mills <- hot-rolling-mill
>               cold-rolling-mills
>       gas-holders  <- gas-holder-no1
>       water-towers <- water-tower-no1
>
>
> So looking for images tagged with category 'steel-industry' would show all
> substructures of 'steel-mill-xy' (and all images of it).
> Looking for category 'gas-holders' would show all images of gasholders
> ('gasholder-xy-no1' in this case).
>
> Hope, my example is not too confusing.
>
> I would be willing to work on this, if someone would show me a
> 'starting-point'.
>
> Greetings Harald

This is possible, just expand the left 'tag' view, make child tags, assign 
images and click on the mother tag to view the those pictures, including 
pictures with child tags.

toma
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