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Bug 306961 - tag and categories are confusing
tag and categories are confusing
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: f-spot
Classification: Other
Component: Tags
0.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: F-spot maintainers
F-spot maintainers
: 309435 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-06-08 23:15 UTC by Hubert Figuiere (:hub)
Modified: 2009-07-27 13:20 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Hubert Figuiere (:hub) 2005-06-08 23:15:04 UTC 
I don't see why there are tag and categories. In fact it is confusing and
constraining. Think about the following case

I have a category "Canada", with a tag "Montreal"
Now I realize that I take a lot of pictures of the "Old Port" and want to make a
now tag for these, inside "Montreal", I can't. I have to rename Montreal, to
create a new category named "Montreal", retag all the pictures and then I can
tag with "Old Port".
Consufing, huh ?

Having only tags that can be hierarchical would much more convenient.
Comment 1 Larry Ewing 2005-06-09 17:33:47 UTC 
Agreed, the main thing preventing this is that to make things like the hidden
query work properly we need some way of representing tags that can't have
subtags.
Comment 2 Hubert Figuiere (:hub) 2005-06-09 19:34:17 UTC 
since these special tags are pre-defined, making them "read-only" and "no child"
internally should be enough.
Comment 3 Gabriel Burt 2005-11-12 08:08:19 UTC 
*** Bug 309435 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Gabriel Burt 2005-11-12 08:11:23 UTC 
This should really be solved easily by not allowing user's to make Tags (eg ones
that can't have children) and call Categories Tags and be done with this
confusion.  If we really only need the "Tag" class for the Hidden tag, then this
should be very doable.  Larry, would you be happy with that solution?  I don't
see any reason to allow user's to create tags that can't have children.
Comment 5 Gabriel Burt 2005-11-30 00:16:21 UTC 
CVS is fixed to only allow the user to add/edit Categories (which is now calls
Tags).