[KPhotoAlbum] Bug 150972 - change "no other" behavior when selecting directories

[Johannes Zarl]

On Tuesday 28 February 2012 10:38:39 josephj at main.nc.us wrote:
> I think this needs to be spelled out very clearly - at least with a
> concrete example of what would and would not be selected so we know what's
> actually intended.  I'm not sure about any implicit stuff.
> 
> Generally, if I select all pictures with my family (as a group of
> individually tagged people) in them, I would expect the selection to
> include pictures of people in my family that also include other people
> that I may have tagged in some other way.  I'm not sure what effect your
> suggestion would have on this.
> 
> Joe
> 
> People:
>   Family:
>     Joe
>     Rita
>     ...
>   Friends:
>     Dave
>     Jim
>     ...
> 
> If I select Family, but a picture is also tagged as Friends or as Jim
> I would expect it to be included.
> 

Good point. Automatically adding the "No other" attribute while browsing would 
work good for strictly hierarchically structured categories (like folders). 
For more "natural" categories, I would guess that you cannot make this work 
automatically in an intuitive way.

So this leads to the question: Is it possible to automatically (and cheaply) 
check whether a category is structured in a way that allows automatic "No 
other" handling?

And if it's possible: Would it be intuitive for the user (different behaviour 
depending on the category he/she is browsing)?

  Johannes