[Shotwell] Shotwell 0.11: Call for testing - TAGS!

[pt]

On 28 August 2011 18:37, pt <pt at traversin.org> wrote:
> On 28 August 2011 13:44, Vincent <el.cameleon.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am also waiting for an answer before moving manually my hundred of tags
>> under a parent tag. Hope there is some way to help with this huge task...
>
> Same problem here.
>
> This is my solution. You will need:
>
> 1. a collection of already tagged photos (tags in the photo metadata
> or in xmp files)
> 2. f-spot (with an actual database, otherwise you'll have to import
> most of your photos to have the tags appear in f-spot)
> 3. depending on the size of your collection, patience.
>
> F-spot does permit drag-n-drop of multiple tags at once, so you can
> move your tags under a parent tag quite easily. (I already had my tags
> tree done in f-spot.)
>
> Make a backup of the f-spot database, just in case.
>
> Remove all photos from f-spot database, the tags tree will stay in place.
> Import a single (bogus) photo, and tag it with *all* the tags (expand
> the tags tree and shift-select all of them).
>
> Delete the shotwell database (or just move ~/.shotwell to another
> place), thus making all the tags disappear from the interface, then do
> the 'import from f-spot'.
>
> At that point you should have a single photo and a correct
> hierarchical tag tree.
>
> After that delete the bogus photo and re-import all your collection.
> The tags will hopefully be already in place and you'll have a fresh
> nice hierarchical tags tree.

OK guys, I'm really sorry but I didn't try that with an extensive
collection of photos.

It seems that Shotwell will put your tags into an existing tree *only*
if you have the full branch tagged.

e.g. if you have in the tree 'people/family/mom' and you add a photo
tagged just 'mom' shotwell will *add* a root-level tag 'mom', instead
of using the already-existing one.

There is a big mess with duplicate tags: it seems that they are
allowed on different branches, but not in the same branch.

Please please change that. On my opinion it should *not* be allowed to
have duplicate tags (including tags that differ only for the case of
the letters).

Looking forward for a better implementation of the hierarchical tags.
As it is now it is just not usable (i.e. I am willing to group my tags
in 'location', 'subject' and 'keywords', but I'm not going to tag
*any* single photo with the top-tree tags.)

Please consider the option of having 'helper' or 'dummy' tags that
don't get automatically added to the photos, with the only purpose of
organising the tags tree. And believe me, with several tens of
thousands photos as I have, the tags tree will become quite large.

A good example is (again) geeqie's hierarchical tags.

Ciao ciao,
Piergi
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