Lu, Isn't your "static playlist" a tag? So if you create a "Best of 2011" tag and assign it to all the photos you want, you have your static list.
Cheers, Bruno On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 18:38 -0700, Lu Timdale wrote: > Saved Searches: Wow what a great feature... brilliant. I love it. > > I have a couple of comments: > > 1. I think it would be easier to find and usable if you had the "Saved > Searches" top level folder visible by default with a + or add button beside > it. At the very least, the right click on saved searches should show "new > search" dropdown. That is the only place it seems that it doesn't do it > currently. > > > > 2. I can't help but think that they are akin to smart playlists in music > collection apps such as banshee. > On that train of thought... > Yes, we now have dynamic/smart playlist equivalents via "Saved Searches". > Yes, we have static playlist equivalents via > > - "events"... but this is only the primary organization structure. > - "flagged" list... but this is only one list and gets overwritten, so it's > temporary. > How about static playlist equivalents that are arbitrary in nature... > Collections/Slideshows/Stacks? > I have a use case in mind already. Every year, I put together a best of the > year or yearbook type collection manually. I hand pick these photos, so this > is not easily doable with a dynamic search. I think these static > collections are a bit different than tags btw, as tags typically (and will > hopefully soon) represent a hierarchy and are part of the metadata. These > collections would never be written out to the file in metadata. > > > > Keep up the very solid work gents. I am truly amazed at how far this app has > come in such a short time. > > No worries if you have thought of these points already and are secretly > planning to implement later. ;-) > > > Cheers. > > > > Lu Timdale > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
