On Tue, Apr 22, 2014, at 06:31 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:24 PM, liamw wrote:
• Objects dialog (http://sta.sh/0zb66ec8hyk ) • Tags dialog (selection sets http://sta.sh/01n137vphezw )
Just an armchair critic comment: these two dialogs belong together. When you have time, please have a look at how tagging of resources is done in GIMP for an idea how this could be implemented. It's a rather solid design.
Alexandre
Yes. I've discussed this a bit already on IRC, but the phrase "tag" was really abused in the Ponyscape feature, and needs some major overhaul.
The simple approach would be to just call things other than "tag", as that have a very well known usage in the media realm ("tags" as in keywords "tagging" photos, flikr, etc.) IIRC, the Ponyscape feature is more of "object hierarchy tree" than "tags".
However, we might want to look into implementing "selection groups" different than the Ponyscape's "tags" implementation, and possibly include use of real tagging. For example, we might want to allow for selecting all with the string "hand" attached, all with the string "alice" and all with the string "left". Entering those three strings in a tags entry would allow us to get "Alice's left hand" selected quickly and simply.
For the object dialog (and/or layers, and/or XML tree), allowing a tags search entry field would allow us to highlight all matching objects by hiding non-matching ones or preferably by dimming them out.