Re: [Gramps-devel] Tagging: What tag order do we want?

[Nick H. <nic...@ho...>]

Benny Malengier wrote:
>
>
> 2010/9/20 Nick Hall <nic...@ho... 
> <mailto:nic...@ho...>>
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I moving tags from a list of textual tags into a list of tag
>     handles, I
>     have got to the stage where I need to decide if tags should be
>     stored in
>     an ordered list or not.
>
>     In the previous version, because the tags were just text it was
>     easy to
>     keep them in alphabetic order.  This made the display of the tags
>     column
>     easy, but introduced a small overhead when tagging a selection of
>     objects.  I also chose to colour-code the rows according to the first
>     tag in the list which was the first alphabetically.  This may not be
>     what we want, so I thought that I should ask a question before
>     continuing.
>
>     Is the order of tags important?
>
>     I could continue to keep them in alphabetic order.  This would
>     just mean
>     retrieving all tag names from handles for every tag added to a person.
>
>     I could store them as an unordered list.  This would make adding tags
>     easy, but I would have to sort them before display.  Would I still use
>     the colour of the first tag alphabetically?
>
>     I could allow the user to order them, and always add a new tag to the
>     end of the list.  This would make tag display and adding new tags
>     easy,
>     but is it what we want?  I would have to change the tag widget in the
>     person editor to allow ordering, or adopt Doug's suggestion of letting
>     the user type a comma separated list of tags.
>
>     I could colour-code rows according to tag priority rather than the
>     list
>     order or the first alphabetically.  This would involve a small
>     change to
>     add up and down arrows to the tag organizer and to store an priority
>     field in the tag table.
>
>     Let me know what you think.
>
>
> I like the priority change. It removes the need of reordering a bunch 
> of tags in people, which seems like too much work to bother.

I agree, this is the option I like the best.   I'll add a priority to tags.


Nick.

>
> I am sure some people will want to control what color a line is in, so 
> just coloring it with alphabetic tag will probably not be liked much. 
> From that point of view, allowing order or setting priority is the way 
> forward. Priority seems most versatile to me, you quickly change it in 
> one place.
> Then, if you select the tag, and look at the person view after 
> filtering, everything not in that color has a higher priority tag 
> applied to it, without the need to scan the tag column.
>
> Benny
>  
>
>
>     Regards,
>
>
>     Nick.
>
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