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

[Phil Howard <phil hproductions com>]

I guess I am in favor of AND within catagories, When I am trying to pick 
a picture for the Christmas card and I select my wife, myself, and our 
daughter and it returns a huge number of pictures, when what I'm really 
looking for is a family picture. That said, I do really like the custom 
query idea, it could be saved as a view for quick access in a similar 
way that a mail client will have a view that only shows new mail.

Thanks, Phil Howard

Gabriel Burt wrote:

> 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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