Todd Slater wrote:
Hi,
On 7/10/07, Richard Krone <richard krone gmail com> wrote:
I am not sure if this is a bug or not.
I have a main category called "Italy" under it are two non-nested
categories, one called Bologna and the other called Rome. Now nested
under Bologna I have a category called "The Streets".
When I attempted to create a category called "The Streets" under
"Rome" F-Spot refused to create it saying that the category was
already used.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
As a scuttle and del.icio.us user for the last few years, it makes
sense to me. I'd try to find pictures of streets in Rome by first
selecting the Rome tag and adding the "The Streets" tag (or the other
way around). I don't care for the folder hierarchy model, though I
realize some prefer it over tags.
I think it would be cool if F-spot would show related tags, either in
a list or cloud. For example, when selecting "giraffe" it might show
+ ColumbusZoo (10)
+ CincinnatiZoo (8)
+ TheWilds (7)
Clicking on the "+" would join the current tag(s) with the tag in
question (AND).
This talk of categories is confusing me, I just want to use tags and
not worry about nesting.
Todd
Personally, I disagree because I think a tag ought to correspond to a
thing, not just a word. Sure, you can make a single tag "The Streets"
and a single tag "Rome" and put them together and essentially get the
words "The Streets Of Rome", but that is not always going to be as
powerful as it could be.
A simple example. Let's say you went to venice and decided to tag it
The Streets and Venice. Then you wanted to change the tag to be "The
Canals". But you can't, because the tag doesn't correspond to a
complete idea, but only a set of words.
It's not that I don't see the value of a list or cloud, but can't we
allow for both concepts in the same interface?
In my humble opinion, it's a deficiency to not allow tag names to have
the same name. Unnecessary, and confusing to certain people. Should
this discussion go to the bug report? Does anybody have the link for
that?
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