On 08/30/2011 04:36 PM, pt wrote:
I'd like to have the possibility of 'dummy tags' like below, or the
possibility of tagging only a part of the branch, not the full branch.
It is mostly a matter of organisation.
You can certainly tag only a part of the branch, not the full branch, in
Shotwell today. For example, if you have a tag 'friends' and a subtag
'dave', you can apply just 'friends' to a photo.
Actually I'd like to have the opposite behaviour as well: if I tag
just 'dave' I don't want it to drag along 'friends'. Is it like that
now?
Today, if there is a hierarchical tag "friends/dave" and you tag a photo
with "dave" then Shotwell will always consider the photo to be tagged
with "friends" as well.
Are you saying that you'd like to be able to mark
'friends' as a dummy tag which isn't written into any exported photo?
Exactly like that. This way I can have 'dummy' tags for keeping
organised my tag tree: e.g. subject (dummy) / friends / dave and
subject (dummy) / nature (dummy) / water (dummy) / lake.
OK - now I see what you're asking. To be honest I think this won't be a
high priority for us since I don't see that it does great harm to write out
these 'dummy' tags when exporting as Shotwell does today, but feel free to
file a ticket if you'd like us to consider this in the future. Cheers -
If the ticket of the existing tags landing correctly in the tree gets
resolved, *and* if I can assign single tags without having the parent
tags coming along there will be no need for 'dummy' tags.
As I mentioned above, when you assign single tags the parent tags always
come along today.
It sounds like what you might want is a preference which tells Shotwell
to export only terminal (leaf) tags, not parent tags. Would this be
good enough?
On a side note, I see that they are taken into account in the mwg
guidelines. In '5.10 Hierarchical Keywords' there is a chapter about
'Categories - grouping of keywords that is only used for
organizational purposes'.
Interesting - may be worth looking at this more.
adam
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