[KimDaBa] Re: Search bar & CategoryEditor & Quick tagging (following)

[William Holland]

Finally got round to setting up the install from cvs... phew!  But worth it, 
and it'll be much easier in the future!

I REALLY like the implementation - brilliant!  Well Done!

Will
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On Friday 03 December 2004 23:56, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
> OK, this is now implemented, give it a try and let me know what you think.
>
> Cheers
> Jesper.
>
> On Wednesday 01 December 2004 21:35, Jean-Michel FAYARD wrote:
> | Me again, sorry for the spam ;-)
> | ~= ten days ago, I wrote this :
> |
> |
> | <===== ACT I =====>
> | * Has someone noticed the nice idea that William Holland made
> | while we were smiling at a joke from Jesper ?
> |
> | > Secondly, as I look through the images I would like to be able to tag
> | > them in an 'ultra quick way' eg typing 't' or something, so that I can
> | > select the tagged ones later, and then perform some operation (setting
> | > key words, or in my case emailing them)
> |
> | I didn´t understand at first, but that´s a rich idea : that would be
> | the viewer/slideshow version of "Images -> Limit view to selected".
> |
> | Say I am watching my 300 pictures of my trip in the USA, and while
> | that slideshow I see that :
> | - this (picture #4 in the slideshow) picture is junk, delete it
> | - this one (#6) is wonderful, I need print them
> | - those are (#8, #11, #15) wonderful too
> | - Oh, here (#120) and there (#125) I forget someone on the picture. I
> | have to correct that
> | - ... whatever else
> |
> | In Kimdaba you can stop the slideshow and change that and then restart
> | the slideshow each time. But William´s suggestion is far better, you
> | just select
> | 'Right Click -> Mark picture as selected' or, more quickly, just type ´M´
> | and let the slideshow continue.
> | When the slideshow ends or when you quit the viewer, the thumbnails
> | view shows only #4, #6, #8, #11, #15, #20 and #25 and you can do your
> | changes from there, all at one time.
> | </=========>
> |
> | Probably a bad idea since nobody seemed to like it
> | Then I saw this entry in the todo list :
> |
> |
> | <===== ACT II =====>
> | - Add a way to mark images using a single key stroke, something like:
> |   select a bunch of images, start the viewer in the viewer SPACE set some
> |   options for the image, and go to the next image, while RET just goes to
> | the next image. (That way you can easily go through hundreds of images
> | putting the keyword "print", and later search for keyword print for
> | sending images to printer)
> |   This could of course be extended so you could set keywords with
> |   different key bindings (which should be configurable):
> |   (c) - image is from Copenhagen
> |   (l) - image is from Las Vegas.
> |
> |
> | Sounds nice, huh ? But on the next line, Jesper noted :
> |
> |          I doubt that extension will be very useful tho.
> |
> | He´s right, because when you fire your viewer and start a slideshow,
> | two minutes after that, you need those handy "c" and "i" shortcuts,
> | one of those two things will happens :
> |
> |   - you don´t have yet defined those shortcuts. So you want to do
> |     "Settings -> Configure Kimdaba", but your girlfriend says
> |     "Let´s just see the pictures for now, you will do that after"
> |     with a so lovely smile that you can not contradict her
> |
> |   - you have already define the shortcut, but one month ago.
> |      Too bad, you already forget it, or didn´t remember that you
> |      changed this shortcut to means another property and do
> |      a mistake ;-)
> |
> | So Jesper is right, that is a second bad idea
> |
> | </=========>
> |
> |
> | <===== ACT III ====>
> | Now, let´s try to combine those two bad ideas to make a good one ;-)
> | You start the slideshow, you press like before (example from Jesper)
> |   (c) - image is from 'C'openhagen
> |   (l) - image is from 'L'as vegas.
> | but you can also press in my example :
> |   (p) - there is a 'P'erson missing on this one
> |   (j)  - this picture is 'J'unk, delete it
> |
> |
> | The point is that (like in my idea)
> |
> | 1) YOU DID NOT CONFIGURE THAT BEFORE (and don´t have to),
> |   those shortcut are transparent for Kimdaba, they are just keystroke
> | that are not binded yet with another action (everything except I D S Q
> | for now), and
> |   they mean whatever I want them to mean at this moment.
> | 2) Those shortcuts don´t actually do anything like setting property
> | Copenhagen for the image. Instead they sort out your pictures by setting
> | a property    "Key C" for a new temporary category "Shortcuts pressed".
> |
> |    That is, after your slideshow, you are in a browser looking like this :
> |      |---------------------|---------------|
> |      | Shortcuts pressed   |  Count        |
> |      |---------------------|---------------|
> |      | Key C               |  10   images  |
> |      | Key L               |  4    images  |
> |      | Key P               |  3    images  |
> |      | Key J               |  25   images  |
> |      |---------------------|---------------|
> |
> | Since the shortcut does nothing, it´s not bad if you press a key by
> | mistake, just go back in the browser and that´s it.
> | But if you take our example, you just have to do now :
> |
> |  	Click on "Key C"
> | 	Ctrl-a, Ctrl-2, Type Copenhagen, Enter
> | 	Go back in the browser
> | 	Click on "Key P" (means 'Persons' in your head)
> | 	Ctrl-a, You have every pictures where a person was missing,
> |               Ctrl-1, type the names, Enter
> | 	Go back in the browser
> | 	Ctrl-a, Deselect the second one (not that bad after all !),
> |               Edit->Delete selected
> |
> | Did I lost everybody, or does that sounds useful ?
> | </=========>
> |
> | PS: I actually tried to implement this, but I´m just not good enough
> | at Qt/KDE programming yet :(