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



Sounds like a good idea to me, and I think you've covered everything that needs to be done.

There's already code to update the database schema from one version to the next, you'd just need to add to it.

Olly

On 28 May 2010 04:10, "William Shubert" <wms igoweb org> wrote:

I'm looking at switching to f-spot for my photo albums. F-spot is great
in a lot of ways, but one thing is missing that looks easy to add.

As far as I can tell, instead of grouping photos in albums, with F-Spot
you use tags to group them together. That's fine, it's flexible, I like
that. But what's missing is that when I apply a tag like "2007 trip to
Maine" to a set of photos, I'd also like to write a paragraph or two
about the trip and/or the photos - who was there, what it was like, etc.
I know that I can insert a comment for each photo, but often it's nice
to have a (possibly longer) comment that goes with the whole group.

I downloaded the F-Spot source and it looks very straightforward to add
this. Add a text column in the "tags" database table, add a member
variable to Tag.cs, add a text field to the "edit tag" dialog, that's
that. The trickiest part would probably be the code to detect an older
database without the tag description field, then update the table schema
if needed, but even that doesn't look terribly difficult.

So my question is: If I do the work to add this feature and upload it as
a bug with an attachment, would it likely be accepted? It seems so
simple and obvious that I feel like maybe it's missing because the
F-Spot developers don't want it. Or I'm also thinking that maybe a
similar feature is in F-Spot somewhere but because I'm new I just
haven't found it yet.

What do you all say? Would this be a good idea that would get accepted,
or would I be wasting my time?

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