[KPhotoAlbum] Picture selection workflow, etc.

[Joe]

On 12/29/2011 09:09 AM, Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Joe<josephj at main.nc.us>  wrote:
>>> You might also try using Tokens, which you can add and remove by typing
>>> A-Z when a picture is selected. (There is some unspecific toggling
>>> semantics here, though.)
>>>
>>> It would be really nice to have a feature that toggled an overlay of
>>> which Tokens were selected for each photo.
>> That would be exactly what my "badges" idea is supposed to do.
>>
>> I understand what tags are about, but what's the idea behind tokens? How are
>> they intended to be used?
> Not sure what's the original purpose, but this is how I use tokens:
>
> After importing a new set of photos, say birthday photos of a friend,
> I go through them in viewer. I press D for each photo that will be
> deleted. R for every photo I'm in, and so on, basically I add a token
> for each person I want to tag in those photos. Then I search all
> photos with D token, delete those, select all with R, add myself as a
> tag in those photos etc. This way I get all people tagged by going
> through them once in viewer (being able to see them full screen is
> nice ;) and then I make one search for token + tag round for each
> token I used.
>
> Now that I write it here it doesn't seem to make much sense..
>
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So, it sounds like tokens are essentially the same as tags, but that you 
can assign them without going through the annotate dialogs which can 
really speed things up.  Replacing them with tags later as you do seems 
like the way to go.

Joe