[Shotwell] Feature wish: tagging temporarily

[oliver]

Hello Adam,

the longer email-text which I deleted as I saw the flagging feature,
has described the way flagging can be used for tagging:

 - flag all files that belong to a certain category, and then
   tag all flagged files and delete the flag afterwards.


The one-key-tagging-shortcurt, when using fixed mappings would
never be able to allow any kind of category reached via one-key
mapping, because so many categories will start with the same
letter.

If you have more than 26 categories beginning with a letter,
than you have at least one more tahn once.

These mappings would be needed to be set by the user each time
a certain category needs to be tagged.

I would prefer to look what categories are there the most, then use flagging,
tag the flagged files, unflag them, and go on with the next category
(again with the category with most members).

So, IMHO there are good reasons to map functions, not aliases.

  (Or for those who want to implement more sophisticated stuff: in a certain
  tagging mode, such tag-shortcuts could be used, but when I remember the
  positive surprise that shotwell already offers matching tag names, when
  entering a new tag name, I think, shotwell already is quite good in this
  respect.)

Ciao,
   Oliver


On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 06:43:18PM -0400, Adam Dingle wrote:
> Oliver,
> 
> I agree that it might be nice to have single-letter keyboard shortcuts, not
> just for flagging but for other operations too.  I've ticketed this at
> 
> http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5069
> 
> (Alternatively, we've thought about letting the user tag photos just by
> typing a single letter - that's http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/1899 .  I
> think I like using single letters for commands better, though.)
> 
> adam
> 
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:34 PM, oliver <oliver at first.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > a feature which I would like to ask for:
> >
> >   A temporarily tagging feature (maybe "t" key?)
> >   to tag pictures without giving them a tag right now.
> >
> >
> > Hey, I just saw, this already exists as "Markieren" (marking/flagging).
> >
> >
> > So I don't really ask for that new feature...
> >
> >
> > So I'm rather asking just for a way to use ONE KEY
> > ("f" for flag or "m" for mark?) instead of the two-Keys
> > command Ctrl-G.
> >
> > If you have many files (and I do have that),
> > then just pressing "f" for example is much more convenient
> > and also more healthy...
> >
> > Maybe this can be done without too much effort and also consitently
> > from a usability-concepts standpoint?!
> >
> > Ciao,
> >   Oliver
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