Re: A feature I'd like to add; would it be accepted?

[Jean Levasseur <levasseur jean gmail com>]

I proposed in the past (but I haven't had the chance to work on it yet...) to have some kind of "saved searches" that would hold tags, ratings and dates.  That way, I can have a single tag "Jean's Anniversary" but I can build several "albums/catalogs" based on the search of this tag and a selection of dates/ratings.  That would automatically filter out pictures I like less, for my anniversary, for a single year and make it easy to retrieve later on.

 

For the moment, though, I'm still learning C# basics (I'm not a programmer), so I don't know when I'll be able to implement such a feature myself.

Jean.

2010/6/1 William Shubert <wms igoweb org>

Thanks Oliver and Lorenzo for the advice. I have now made my patch and
submitted it, along with a bug report, at
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620226

It was very straightforward, the tips to look at Updater.cs for database
schema changes made it all very easy. The one part that gave me trouble
was making the UI look good. As I said in the bug report, I haven't done
GTK before, so I just added a TextView and a label to the "Edit Tag"
dialog. This made the TextView ugly with no border or other visual cue,
and as the TextView grows and shrinks, the whole dialog grows and
shrinks with it. If you want to give me a tip on fixing this, I can, or
if it's easy maybe somebody else can just do it themselves. Otherwise I
think that the patch is ready to go.

I read the discussion in bug 361470. It seems that some people want
catalogs in addition to tags, but my preference would be to keep things
simple; having one thing in the application, with optional fields that
can be ignored (making it more like a tag) or filled out (making it more
like a catalog), it seems you get all the benefits of the two objects
while keeping both the UI and the code simpler.

The description is the only tag enhancement really feels necessary to
me. It would be nice (as pointed out in bug 361470) to be able to set
the order of photos in a tag/catalog, but that can be done by fiddling
with the photo times. It would also be nice if photo exporters used the
description when exporting, but there are so many exporters and I didn't
want the patch to become too big by adding this feature to each of them.
So for now the patch just adds an optional description to each tag, you
can fill it out, then you see it when you reopen the "tag description"
dialog later.

How does it look?

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