On 31 August 2011 14:40, <[email protected]> wrote: > > The expected behaviour when you tag a file is : > - in the hierarchical field, the full hierarchical structure of the tags > given (and main field used by shotwell), > - in the flat list, for compatibility reasons with other softwares that may > not understand hierarchical tags, to only use tags explicitly assigned by the > user (and not parents). If there is a clash name in the flat list, never mind > that's ok for me, softwares should implement hierarchical tags and you don't > have to overcome this.
AFAIK, it is allowed to have duplicated keywords in the photo metadata in the xmp.dc.subject field. I personally don't like it, but it won't produce errors. > An other point is concerning importing photos already tagged. In f-spot, if > the tags don't already exist in the hierarchy, they are put in a "category" > named 'Imported tags', so they don't pollute my hierarchy and I know I have > something to do with those tags (I don't know if shotwell implements the same > behaviour). A similar principle could be used when shotwell can't decide > between tags with the same name in different parts of the hierarchy. It > doesn't block the import and you can treat the photos when you'll have time. Agree with that. Unfortunately, the current behaviour is rather annoying. When you import from F-spot, Shotwell will: 1. import correctly the tags hierarchy from F-spot database 2. forget completely about the freshly made tags tree 3. duplicate each and every tag from the actual picture metadata as new root-level tags. No use for an 'Imported tags' category, as (almost) every tag will go there in a flat list. I reckon there is already a ticket for that, so I think it'll be resolved sooner or later. > And thanks for shotwell, I still miss some features to switch, mainly (sorry > for the wishlist :->) : [...] > In addition to that wishlist (that I stripped out as mainly not tag-related), I'd like a simple interface showing all the tags we can read with the current used library (i think exiv2 is used), with the option of filling in empty fields or changing existing ones. Let's say an 'advanced' metadata view. I do know there are much more tags than needed--coming from different standards--but we already have applications doing that in a pretty decent way (I am thinking on Geeqie, offering via right-click the option of choosing which metadata to show in the main window, and if they should be editable (only the xmp, but these are the ones we are already using, aren't they?) Ciao ciao, Piergi -- Web: http://traversin.org GNU/Linux user 190604 _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
