[KimDaBa] new feature: hierarchical categories/groups editor?

[Eivind]

On Tuesday 18 October 2005 22:32, Marco Molteni wrote:

> What I really like about kimdaba is the tagging feature (categories),
> and the fact that the tags can be made hierarchical using groups.

More than that; they are a graph. (idealy one free of cycles, but I don't 
know if that's actually checked, sorta doubt it)

> My suggestion is: the groups/categories relationship is a tree or
> maybe a graph. It would be VERY useful to have a graphical browser
> of those relationships. Assuming they were a tree, something
> equivalent to the bookmarks manager of a web browser.

They're not a tree, so that would sadly not work. One leaf can belong to 
several different branches.

Assuming we did control that no cycles exist in the graph, this could 
offcourse be worked around by letting those objects that are in several 
places in the tree appear in all of those places, sorta like how a 
hardlinked file appears in several places. For example if I have:
(I use the notation > for "is member of")

Eid > Westnorway > Norway > Europe
Cottbus > Germany > Europe
Eid > "Places I've lived"
Cottbus > "Places I've lived"

Then this could be represented as:

Europe
	Norway
		Westnorway
			Eid
	Germany
		Cottbus
Places I've lived
	Cottbus
	Eid

Notice how Cottbus and Eid appears two different places.


	Eivind Kjørstad