GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 138065
UI distinction between tag setting and tag searching confusing
Last modified: 2006-10-06 03:10:25 UTC
I spent my first ten minutes with F-Spot being really confused. I had created some tags and was trying to set them -- I'd double-click on a picture, then click on a checkbox in the lefthand pane and get pissed off as my picture disappeared. (Then it'd crash if I clicked the forward or back arrows, but that's a separate issue.) Basically, it's not clear that the checkboxes on the left are filters rather than settings for the current picture. Maybe once the tag-setting UI is better this won't be an issue, but I was struggling for a while and I consider myself a non-idiot at figuring out how to use programs ...
Agreed, I found the same behaviour, it would make more sense if these buttons would be used for setting tags instead of filtering based on them. Such a filter could be run from a dialog or menu-item called "Filter", much like usual with E-mail filters and Searches..
This bug would be solved by my proposed solution to bug #139796 which allows for arbitrary querying with tags, and removes the checkboxes entirely.
The checkboxes are no more.