Re: Tagging Photo Regions

["Robert Paskowitz" <rpaskowitz confucius ca>]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Lorenzo Milesi
<lorenzo milesi yetopen it> wrote:
>  Hi
>
>  There's a request filed already!
>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324391
>
>
>  I believe that if you post a patch there many people (me included!) will
>  be happy to test and use your modification.
>  As for the inclusion in F-Spot, I'm not a mantainer but since face
>  detect is something awaited for long time there are big chances that it
>  will make into the code not far in the future.
>
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>  maxxer
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>  Grazie.
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>

Enough to convince me. Please find a patch adding the ability to tag
specific areas of a photo at
http://confucius.ca/fspot/tag_area-001.patch. You should also get the
3 PNG images from http://confucius.ca/fspot/ and place them in the
icons/ directory.

The patch is against revision 3849.

I also plan to extend the work a little bit more so that a tag may
have a colour associated with it so that you can have different
regions marked in different colours. The association will likely be to
the tag itself and not the "photo_tag" entry, so the colour will be
consistent for all markings of a particular tag. Most of the work is
done, I just need to add some GUI surrounding selecting the colour.

To use the functionality in the patch, you may make a selection while
in the single photo view mode and click on the monkey icon on the
toolbar. After selecting the tag to associate, the region will be
surrounded in a green box. Right-clicking on that region will show at
the top of the menu the name of the tag, and at the bottom two new
menu items; one to remove the tagged region and another to associate
the region with a new tag.

There is also a menu item under the View menu to control if tagged
regions are shown or not (you may not always want them to be seen).

Comments and suggestions appreciated,

-Rob