Re: Tag typing.

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

I am officially addicted with this type-to-tag patch, and will not use
F-Spot without it ever again.

However, now you have me addicted to the tag expansion feature, which
leaves me with a feature request:

Pressing enter if there is a selection (i.e. a tag that was matched and
can be expanded) should expand the tag... append a space after the
selection and move the cursor to the end of the selection/expanded tab,
ready to input a second tag. If there is no selection in the entry, the
enter key applies the tag(s). If there is a selection, the enter key
places the cursor at the end of the selection.

My initial reaction to expand/accept the matched tag was to press tab
twice, but apparently this cycles multiple potential matches, which I
think is the most acceptable behavior.

Ideas?

Best,
Aaron

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 00:26 -0500, Nat Friedman wrote:
> Herewith please find version 3 of the tag typing patch.  
> 
> A serviceable completion mechanism is now implemented.  Type the
> beginning of a tag and press the TAB key to complete.  Pressing TAB
> multiple times will cycle through the completion options.  The completed
> portion of the tag name is selected so that hitting backspace or another
> letter will cancel the completion.
>         
> The problems with it are discoverability and the fact that you don't
> know what it will complete until you hit TAB.  The other problem is that
> I complete in tag sort order, not in any sensible order like the
> frequency of the tag usage or likelihood that the user wants to apply
> this tag to this photo or anything like that.
>         
> Anyway, this implementation works really well for me and I doubt I'll do
> much more development on this part of things.
> 
> The Delete key issue that Ruben reported is fixed now, and I made a few
> cosmetic improvements here and there.
> 
> Unresolved issues: (1) we need to either go with the 't' mechanism David
> proposed, or to reshortcut v, V and f, (2) we need to decide on sensible
> hiding/showing behavior for the tagbar, and (3) the focus issue that
> Gabriel and Ruben reported in the photo view is still there, I have no
> idea how to fix that.
> 
> Future work may include: a more condensed viewing mode for the tag
> sidebar so you can see more tags at once, a better completion system,
> and a more flickr-like UI, with a list of tags arranged vertically
> instead of this long horizontal bar.  Maybe.
> 
> Anyway, provided Larry likes this I think it's probably close to
> CVS-ready.
> 
> Nat
> 
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