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

[Adam Dingle]

On 08/30/2011 04:36 PM, pt wrote:
>
>>> I'd like to have the possibility of 'dummy tags' like below, or the
>>> possibility of tagging only a part of the branch, not the full branch.
>>> It is mostly a matter of organisation.
>> You can certainly tag only a part of the branch, not the full branch, in
>> Shotwell today.  For example, if you have a tag 'friends' and a subtag
>> 'dave', you can apply just 'friends' to a photo.
> Actually I'd like to have the opposite behaviour as well: if I tag
> just 'dave' I don't want it to drag along 'friends'. Is it like that
> now?

Today, if there is a hierarchical tag "friends/dave" and you tag a photo 
with "dave" then Shotwell will always consider the photo to be tagged 
with "friends" as well.

>
>>>> Are you saying that you'd like to be able to mark
>>>> 'friends' as a dummy tag which isn't written into any exported photo?
>>> Exactly like that. This way I can have 'dummy' tags for keeping
>>> organised my tag tree: e.g. subject (dummy) / friends / dave  and
>>> subject (dummy) / nature (dummy) / water (dummy) / lake.
>> OK - now I see what you're asking.  To be honest I think this won't be a
>> high priority for us since I don't see that it does great harm to write out
>> these 'dummy' tags when exporting as Shotwell does today, but feel free to
>> file a ticket if you'd like us to consider this in the future.  Cheers -
> If the ticket of the existing tags landing correctly in the tree gets
> resolved, *and* if I can assign single tags without having the parent
> tags coming along there will be no need for 'dummy' tags.

As I mentioned above, when you assign single tags the parent tags always 
come along today.

It sounds like what you might want is a preference which tells Shotwell 
to export only terminal (leaf) tags, not parent tags.  Would this be 
good enough?

>
> On a side note, I see that they are taken into account in the mwg
> guidelines. In '5.10 Hierarchical Keywords' there is a chapter about
> 'Categories - grouping of keywords that is only used for
> organizational purposes'.

Interesting - may be worth looking at this more.

adam