Re: Import Patch and Iview tags...

[Warren Baird <photogeekmtl gmail com>]

Stephane Delcroix wrote:
> > Although I think perhaps there is one very like it. I added a small
> > comment to your bug.
> just responded to it

I think that the patch I attached should fix your problem --- as I said 
in the comment - it doesn't fully support all possible xmp files, but 
for simple xmp data (such as f-spot generates) it should work.

> The name of the tag is declared 'UNIQUE' in the database. Previously, I
> found that a bit annoying, while tagging things like
> Events > 2005 > My Birthday
> Events > 2006 > My Birthday

Yeah, I've run into that as well...   possibly tag names should be 
stored more like a filesystem path - "/Events/2005/My Birthday", 
"/People/Celebs/Paris" and "/Places/France/Paris" --- this would address 
the uniqueness issue...

It'd also make reconstruction easier...   Once I imported 5000 or so 
tagged photos from iPhoto, it took me quite a while to move the tags 
around into an appropriate tree structure.  If my f-spot db ever becomes 
corrupt, I dread the thought of having to do it again...   If the tags 
in the files had this directory-like structure, it'd be really easy to 
rebuild the full structure...

> And for new tags, just create them in top or in a 'recently imported'
> category...

I'm currently putting them in an "Imported Tags" category at the top 
level...


Warren