Re: Tag Filtering Logic (AND/OR/Combo)

["Bengt Thuree" <bengt thuree com>]

Hej

I concur.
Or within a category and then And them with other categories.
As default, then we can always have a special find/search window with more
sofisticated search/tag pattern

/Bengt
<citat vem="Gabriel Burt">
> The following is a comment on bug
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139796 I posted a while ago. I
> would like to see this issue discussed more. I'd of course like to
> implement what I've outlined below. :)
>
> My instinct was to OR the selected tags within a category, then AND them
> with the OR'd selected tags of other categories.
>
> For exmaple, you have
> Places
>  - Kansas
>  - New York
>  - Illinois
>
> People
>  - Me
>  - Larry
>  - Luis
>
> You could see pictures of (Larry or me) in (New York or Illinois).
>
> I understand users could intend (Larry and me) in (New York) ... but
> allowing
> that and the above example would entail significant changes to how these
> filters
> are selected.
>
> The first approach makes more sense to me, because you can OR tags of any
> type,
> but ANDing will often not make sense (Places, Photographer, etc).
>
> The current approach of ORing all selected tags across all categories
> seems the
> worst of the options, since it has no ability to show pictures that match
> two or
> more tags.
>
> Perhaps a long-term solution that could provide much greater flexiblity
> would be
> a text-entry where the user can write out what they want to see, as in
> "Pictures
> of Larry and Gabriel taken by Luis in New York or Illinois but not
> Chicago."
> With content-assisted popups and graphical goodies, of course. :)  Add
> speach
> recognition..and that's enough for one night.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gabriel Burt
>
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