On 9/19/07, Giacomo Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 17:39 -0500, Thomas Lunde wrote: > > E.g., iPhoto sort-of does this. Although they're not "keywords" in > > the iPhoto parlance, one can search one for any word in the name of > > the folder that immediately contained the photos. The search is not > > case sensitive. > > F-Spot already does this. In the main gallery, just press '/' and type: you > will see all the photos that have searched terms in their path or description.
Wow! Thanks. The Help section for Search does have a subsection called Type-to-Find, but it doesn't seem to mention that the full path is attached to each photo. Here is a suggested patch to the help file. This paragraph should go after the one ending with "The not operator is not yet supported.": "You can use type-to-find to locate photos based on the directory name that they were in when you imported them into F-Spot. For example, if you import a folder called "Football Game -- Stars versus Rockets" then you can search on any of those words. This search is not case sensitive. Do note that each search term is treated separately, so that typing / then "stars rockets" (without the quotes) will not find anything. You must type either "stars versus" or "stars and rockets" to find these photos." > Converting paths to tags would be useful, probably, but we should define a > naming policy, and there will always be something wrong. Example: > > /home/alt-os/files/photos/camping/croatia/mostar/dsc001.jpg > > Would you tag it "mostar+croatia+camping", "mostar", or "photos", or > "photos+files"... Well, if you're seriously asking, I think that it would be best to use only the name of the directory directly containing the pictures. In other words, I'd be content with mostar in the above example. Why? Well, I can always make that level as detailed as possible (i.e. redundant if necessary with other things higher in the pathname). Also, using the full pathname causes a problem in that it makes my name useless as a tag since my home directory looks like this: /home/thomas/Pictures/YYYY/MM/DD/Here is my Event Name/xxx.jpg /home/thomas/Pictures/YYYY/MM/DD/Here is my Second Event/yyy.jpg I think that this will be true for a lot of folks since the Ubuntu (and Fedora?) installer defaults to making one's account's shortname the same as one's first name. Just my $0.02. Let me know if I should create a bug for the suggested help text above. Thanks thomas _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list F-spot-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list