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

[Marco Molteni]

On Wednesday 19 October 2005 09:06, Eivind wrote:

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> 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.

very nice. We could add a visual sign to the tags that appear
in multiple groups, for example normal text is black and
Cottbus and Eid is blue.

Another possibility, but I think it requires more coding, is
a graph-like display. This would allow for loops.

marco