Lu, On 05/27/2011 06:38 PM, Lu Timdale wrote:
Saved Searches: Wow what a great feature... brilliant. I love it.
Thanks! :)
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.
We've tried to reduce clutter in the sidebar by not displaying top-level folders unless there are any items in them. This seems OK for now, although I agree it does make some features a little less easy to find.
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.
Right: this is http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3529 . Hopefully for 0.11.
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.
Your static playlists are so similar to tags that we're a bit reluctant to introduce them as a separate entity in Shotwell. I agree that it would be nice if the user could arrange items in an arbitrary order in any tag or event, which would give you some of what you're looking for here. I've ticketed that at http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3754 .
Keep up the very solid work gents. I am truly amazed at how far this app has come in such a short time.
Hey, thanks again! adam _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
