Re: New To The List w/ a Question

[Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>]

Andy,

It was intentional to use OR instead of AND, but it's definitely a
highly thought-about issue, and indeed the second oldest not-fixed bug
in f-spot is for this very thing
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139796).  It would be very
simple to change the part of the code that joins the query terms to
join use AND instead, but the reason I believe it hasn't yet been
changed is that limiting the querying to a single boolean function is
not satisfactory.

I have worked on a patch (and am working with Larry to work out UI
issues) for this that allows users to create queries that invoke both
AND, OR, and NOT operators.  I have attached the patch (as well as a
screenshot: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=53008&action=view)
to the above bug.  Hopefully we can get the discussion around this
issue revived and get a much better solution into F-Spot soon.

Thanks for the feedback!

Gabriel Burt

On 10/2/05, Andy Choens <gunksta gmail com> wrote:
> 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
>
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