Re: Terminology

["Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen gmail com>]

On 16/09/06, Anders Conradi <beque telia com> wrote:
> You miss the important point of collections with this definition. The
> photos in a collection should have a user defined order. This is the
> whole point of a collection. If you don't have the user defined order
> you don't gain any new capability that you didn't already have with
> tags.

Point taken. Here are the new proposed definitions, with changed
definitions marked with + and unchanged definitions marked with -.
Please ratify:

List Of Terms (version 0.3)

- Plugin: This is any third-party addition to F-spot.

- Photo: One image that was produced by a digital camera, graphics
program, or scanned image. An alternative word is "picture".

- Tag: An arbitrary word or phrase added to a photo (by an end-user) to
decribe the photo. A photo may have multiple tags, and a tag can be
assigned to more than one photo.

+ Collection: A group of photos that are kept together. A photo can
belong to multiple collections. The photos in a collection are
arranged in a user-defined order. When a collection is displayed, only
the photos of that collection are accessable. That means that the tags
of photos not in the collection are not displayed, and the timeline
refers to the collection being used only. Also, operations such as
Select All or Export, when done while viewing a collection, will
operate only on the photos of that collection.

- Library: A group of collections. This would contain all the
photos that a particular installation of F-spot is designed to handle.

- Touchup: A change to an image that is made to correct camera error,
such as red-eye reduction. F-spot can perform touchups on photos.

- Modify: A change to an image that is made to alter the content of the
photo, such as removing your aunt from the photo. F-spot is not
designed to modify photos (That's what the Gimp is for). However,
plugins may modify photos.