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

[Lorenzo Milesi <lorenzo milesi yetopen it>]

> 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.

This is an old request: support for photo albums.
Albums should be "like" tags, but with some more advanced features.
There should be a description, but also in an album you should be able to manually resort photos, choose which photo version to display...
You can see more info here:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361470

This would be great :-)


> 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.

The DB update is the easiest task. Have a look at Updater.cs.


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

Let's discuss here, or on bugzilla, for the proper way to implement this, and I assure you it will be included!

ciao!
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