Re: Tag-UI

["Gabriel Burt" <gabriel burt gmail com>]

On 9/4/06, Paul Wellner Bou <paul purecodes org> wrote:
> The problem with adding, removing and creating tags in f-spot for me is
> that it needs time. I'm not talking about the time f-spot is hanging
> while writing the data to the images or into the database. I have a
> (not-very-small) list of tags and each time I have to search a specific
> tag with the f-spot UI. I miss a way to add tags using the keyboard
> only. Just having a text field where I can write the tag(s) in without
> having to open this huge tag list.

As mentioned by others, ctrl-t will tag the currently selected photos
with the currently selected tags.  And you can of course use the more
powerful 't' mode, type-to-tag feature, which *is* documented:
http://f-spot.org/User_Guide/Organize

> Are you able to manage your tags quickliy with the f-spot ui? Am I doing
> something wrong? Do I miss a feature which is yet there and/or do I have
> too much tags?

Three shortcuts for managing your tags:

1. You can drag and drop them to move them around
2. You can press F2 to change the name, inline
3. If you have the tag tree widget focused, you can start typing the
name of a tag,
   and all the expanded tags in the list will be searched and you'll
jump to any matching
   ones.

1. and 2. are documented in the User Guide, 3. should probably be added.

> I saw a mail or a patch for smaller tag icons but I did not find it
> right now. Is there a plan to include it? Is there a plan to include an
> option to disable tag icons at all?

Yes and yes.

> I would appreciate your opinions and tips on managing and handling with
> tags in f-spot. With my growing tag list (~50) I am not able to manage
> them efficiently any more.

There is more work going on for doing better searches using tags.  You
can check out the F_SPOT_QUERY branch to get access to this
functionality now.  More information at:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139796

Gabriel