Re: Terminology

[Warren Baird <photogeekmtl gmail com>]

Hi Dotan,

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> That is what I had in the original definition: if someone wants a
> photo to appear in more than one album, then he would copy it to the
> second album. Each album would have a seperate .jpg file, just as each
> 'real' album would have a seperate piece of paper.

Right, but that would be carrying the limitations of the physical world 
into the virtual world...     I don't think it is good to have to make 
duplicates of a photo to put it in multiple albums.   I can't think of a 
single use case where that's the default behaviour I'd want - if I have 
a photo in multiple album and I do something to it (tag, touchup, 
modify), I want that change to be carried across all albums...

> > 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.
>
> I think that the default behaviour should be to show only the tags
> relevant to the album. If you're broswing the album of your football
> league, and you click on the tag for your cat, nothing will be
> displayed. With 200+ tags (and we're not done) the idea of sorting
> photos into albums sounds great- if for only managing the tags! But a
> checkbox "View -> Display All Tags" would be acceptable.

I think the default behaviour should be to show all the tags.   I think 
a lot of people will use drag 'n drop to tag new photos.   Imagine the 
following.

I import 50 new photos into a new album.  I want to now apply tags to 
these photos, but since they are all new photos and it's a new album - 
there are *no* tags showing.    To a naive user, this would be very 
confusing.   I definitely think advanced users should have a way to 
eliminate tags that aren't used in the album - but it shouldn't be the 
default...


Warren