[Shotwell] Three (!) feature requests ;-)

[Harald Franzen]

First off, a big round of applause to the people behind Shotwell! I for one
-but I won't be alone- was amazed at the light-weightedness and the speed of
Shotwell! Oh what a bliss :-)

Well, I'll not beat around the bush:

My two cents:
The systems of "events" and "tags" in my not so humble opinion are two sides
of the same medal; I might be way off, but by my reckoning I can divvy up
any photo collection by applying "what", "where" and "when" to every
picture; I think I'd pretty much be sorted.

In Shotwell, the "what" (event) mimicks the "when" (date) -and I've read
more than one comment here that this is in effect experienced as such by
people using Shotwell.  Events -as currently implemented- don't add much;
more often than not for me, several "events" have been photographed on any
day where Shotwell treats them as one single event. But Shotwell is more
than capable of dealing with the "when"; it's what you get out of the EXIF
information in each file...

1) So my feature request would be to be able to separate the tags into
"headers" (and I personally would set it up as described above; what, where
and when). I'd be the first to admit this is a nice-to-have :-)
2) My second feature request would be for the tags to be able to be
drag-and-dropped onto a (selection of) photos, so I don't have to retype
them all the time (so if I am looking for "Christmas" I know I am not
looking for "X-Mas" or "XMAS" at the same time too).
3) If I could tag any photo in the "what", "where", "when" way, I'd be able
to retrieve any photo by it too, so I *know* I am looking for this great
picture taken in 2006 -or maybe 2005?, where Phil was in it, but Mary wasn't
and I am quite sure it was at *their* house too and wasn't this at their
wedding anniversary? It's not the archiving, it's the retrieving which is
the magical part :-)

Having said that: I moved from 0.7.x (Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat) to 0.8.1.
(via your repos) today and was amazed at the amount of progress having been
made! Keep up the good work and thank you!
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