| Summary: | Allow state of the tag tree to be saved | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] digikam | Reporter: | DGardner <damien> |
| Component: | Tags-Engine | Assignee: | Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | caulier.gilles, terri.bugs |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 1.0.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | 4.0.0 | |
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
I forgot to mention that the "Collapse" and "Expand" options are also open bugs/wishes for trees for quite some time. I just thought it would be useful to fit them coherently into a more comprehensive solution for managing big trees. Sorry for harping on, but I'm offering this in the way of a sort
of requirements specification or set of use cases to make it
clear what feature I am wishing for. Hopefully, this will make it
easier for the developers to assess the request and critique it.
If I had to set priorities (according to my own biases), I would
choose them in this order:
1. Fix the problems where the tree gets collapsed for no good
reason. There are open bug reports for the tree collapsing
when switching back from "Tags already assigned" and for some
other operations. That would at least allow the current,
manually set state to be preserved.
2. Fix the lack of options to collapse or expand nodes in the
trees. For example if I might have branches of my tag tree
expanded like this:
Places
Australia
Sydney
Melbourne
Spain
Barcelona
Madrid
Seville
Germany
Berlin
Munich
Now, if I want to tag some photos that I took in Germany,
I would like to collapse Australia and Spain to make the
tree more compact. I would like to click on "Places" and
choose "Collapse -> Children" to get this tree:
Places
Australia
Spain
Germany
Then I can just expand the child tags of "Germany". Once
there are more than about three country tags (and I have
more than that) this is much easier than individually
collapsing all of the country tags that are not relevant
to my current tagging session.
3. Allow the expanded and collapsed state of the tree to be
saved. A first iteration might just allow one saved state.
Later iterations might add support for named states.
4. Support the hide/show functionality.
5. Expand this functionality to all trees.
A long long long explanation for a simple wish : "save all album tree-view state between sessions" Multiple wishes in same bugzilla entry is a large pain to manage. This is highly prohibited !!! The original wish from this file is implemented since a while... CLOSED... Gilles Caulier |
Version: 1.0.0-rc1 (using KDE 4.3.4) OS: Linux Installed from: Ubuntu Packages I'd like to be able to save the expansion state of the tag tree in the "Captions/Tags" view. I'd like to give the saved state a name for later retrieval and store as many saved states as I want. The use case is as follows: When I upload a set of photographs and begin tagging them, I first expand the tag tree (where I have about 400 tags) to expose the tags that I am likely to use for that set of photographs. This would be much easier if I could expand the tree to one of a number of saved states for photos with common subject matter. For example, if I have some photos taken at a family occasion, I would normally expand the "Places/..." tags to show the places where members of my family live. I would also expand the "People/Family/..." tags to show the members of my (slightly extended) family. I want to expand these tags and then have the option to save this tag tree state under the name "Family Occasion". If I had been to the zoo, I might want a different state named "Zoo Visit" where I expand the "Places/..." tags for the local zoo and also the "Things/Animals/..." tags. Now, when I upload a new set of images, I can either set the tree state manually, or just select an option to restore a previously saved state. It might also be possible to allow tags (or other items) to be omitted from a state by allowing items to be hidden and to have the hidden state recorded along with the expansion state. For example, when I tag photos, I generally don't want to see "Places/Germany" or "Places/Spain", as I only needed those tags for photos from I took on holidays and might not have any new photos that need those tags for quite some time. While I want to see these when filtering or searching by tags, I do not (usually) want to see them when setting tags. I could right-click on a tag and select "Hide" or "Hide Children" to remove them from the tree and also right-click on a tag to "Show Children" or "Show All" if I want them back. That would allow me to have a nice, compact tag tree when tagging common sets of images. To avoid clutter, it might be easiest if the whole thing was managed by context menus. To avoid cluttering the menus, there would be a single "View State" (or "Expansion State") option that expands as follows: View State -> Save As... Expand -> One All Children Descendants Collapse -> One All Children Descendants Hide -> One All Children Show -> All Children Descendants ---------- Family Occasion -> Restore Save Delete Zoo Visit -> Restore Save Delete Selecting "Save As..." would allow a new state name to be entered in a dialog box. It would then appear in the menu. Selecting "Expand" or "Collapse" would change the expansion state of the tree. "One" would change the state of the selected item (the one on which the RMB was pressed). "All" would change all nodes in the tree. "Children" would change only the children of the current node. "Descendants" would change all children and their children, as so on. The "Hide" option would remove the item from the visible tree (it would still exist) and the "Show" option would make items visible again. As a hidden item cannot be selected, there is no "Show -> One" option. Similarly, I cannot think of a use case for "Hide -> Descendants". A line could be shown in the tree view to represent the position of hidden tags, just to remind users that tags are hidden. There might also be an option to temporarily show all tags, with the hidden ones in a different colour while this temporary view is active. Selecting an existing state name (they would be sorted alphabetically) would open a further menu to allow that state to be restored, saved (overwritten by the current state) or deleted. The latter two would be subject to confirmation. The active state could be shown using a tick mark beside its name. There would be no need to show its name in the tree view or status bar. DigiKam has lots of trees for albums, calendars, tag filters, tag searches, tag setting, etc. The option to save the state of a tree under a given name for later restoration could be applied to all of these trees. How hard can it be?