Re: Terminology

[Warren Baird <photogeekmtl gmail com>]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> + 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.
Hi Dotan,

I agree with John.   I think it is important to not get too caught up in 
parallels with the real world.   People do sometimes make multiple 
copies of the same photo and put it in multiple albums.   We can make 
the 'virtual' album in f-spot better than the album in the real world. 
 That doesn't necessarily break the album paradigm in the users mind.

If you followed the logic of not making software versions of things 
better than the real-world version, you'd have to include 'virtual 
white-out' in a word processor instead of letting someone delete text.

I generally agree with the definition above, but think that we should 
use the term 'album' instead of 'collection'.  It will be more clear to 
the user.

I'm not sure about limiting the tags.  I like the ability to visually 
drag and drop tags that we currently have - and if you eliminate the 
unused tags, you wouldn't be able to use that mechanism to tag your 
photos.    Maybe providing an advanced option to eliminate all the 
unused tags would be good - but I don't think it should be the default 
behaviour.

Warren