Re: How will F-Spot recreate the tag database from photos?

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

> So again, how do you do with a person called Paris, and the capital of
> France, Paris.
> As well as Person Bengt, and Copyright Bengt
I think it's not possible in f-spot (again, the field 'name' in the
table 'Tags' is UNIQUE)... maybe Larry can share his point of view on
this...
> 
> And more importantly. If you have tagged 10,000 photos, and put about 5
> tags per photo as average. Then you have a problem, and you loose your
> photos.db. 
Don't loose your photos.db ;);)
> But you are happy since you still have the photos, and since
> F-Spot wrote the tag information as XMP, F-Spot should be able to recreate
> all the various tags (and its hierarchy) rather easily.
> How will this work???

I don't know. If we implement this to have a backup facility, maybe it's
worth storing also the tag hierarchy (with or without tag icons...)

> 
> >
> > And for new tags, just create them in top or in a 'recently imported'
> > category...
> 
> That should work fine, and I think Warren is working on this.
OOOoooooooh, it's like a loop!!! That's the thing that started this
discussion this early morning (European time speaking) :)

rgds,

Stephane
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