[Shotwell] Feature requests (2)

[Adam Dingle]

On 10/18/2011 04:01 AM, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
> Is it just me or do other f-spot refugees miss the following:
>
> 1. When adding tags using Ctrl-T shotwell autocompletes and offers 
> valid alternatives. This is fantastic. But it doesn't work if you use 
> F8 to search.

Right.  We'd like to implement autocomplete in the search box, but 
haven't gotten to it yet:

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3191

I've just marked this ticket for consideration for 0.12.

> Also, F8 doesn't allow a whole-word option.

True.  You can pretty easily perform a whole-word tag search using 
Edit->New Search, however.

>
> 2. shotwell is very fast at photo-retrieval by tag if you click on the 
> tagname in the tag bundle. Trouble is, you have to find the tag first. 
> And in my tag cloud, which is still going through a long and steady 
> tidy-up, it could be anywhere.

Right.  I think that search box autocompletion will help a lot here.

adam