New To The List w/ a Question

[Andy Choens <gunksta gmail com>]

Just started using F-Spot.  Over-all I think it has great
promise.  For the record, I am using it on the latest Ubuntu
preview, and have .13.  

I've been going through and tagging my pictures.  I've found a few
bugs, like the inability to resize the windows, etc....but am OK with
this since it isn't even claiming to be beta quality yet.

But, what really surprised me, and I consider to be a usability bug is
the way it handles the boolean searches.  I'll explain more
clearly.

I have a friend named Carlos.  He and I have been to many places
together.  I have many photos of he and I all over the
place.  I have tagged the photos by location, and who is in the
photo.  I have pictures from Camp, Climbing, and the local bar for
instance.

Now, let's pretend I want to search my photos.  I go and decide I
want to look at Climbing pictures, and then I decide I want to see
pictures of my friend Carlos.  It seems logical that I select the
check boxes for Climbing and Carlos.  I assumed (and most people
will too I believe) that checking 2 or more boxes performs the boolean
logic of

Show me every picture you have that are Climbing AND
Carlos.   But, that is NOT what it is doing.  It instead
shows me every picture I have that is marked Climbing OR Carlos. 
Thus, instead of looking at pictures of us climbing together, like I
wanted, I am looking at pictures of him at the bar.  Which is
great, but not m goal at that moment.

Is this a bug or intentional?  If it is intentional, may I suggest
you modify this?  I don't know c#, but maybe I'll download and
stare at the code.  This is supposed to be a high-level language,
and the code base can't be that huge, it's a new project.  If I do
decide to do this, could anyone give me a pointer on where the boolean
logic would be for this so I can find what I'm looking for more quickly?

Thanks,

--andy