[tomboy-list] Yank or keep tags for GNOME 2.20 (Tomboy 0.8)?

[Sanford Armstrong]

On 7/20/07, Boyd Timothy <btimothy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I've been thinking (and maybe that's not a good thing), that we may
> want to consider not including tasks for Tomboy 0.8.0.  As you may/may
> not know, feature freeze is rapidly approaching (July 30th).  String
> freeze is four weeks later, followed soon with hard freeze.
>
> My concern is that the UI for tags, especially in the search all notes
> window, is really not that good and pretty clunky.  I'd hate to see a
> released version of Tomboy look like that.  Anyone else feel the same
> way?  I am going to be on vacation next week (won't even haver
> Internet access...joyful) and a big chunk of August as well, so I
> don't feel like I will have the time to tidy up the tags properly.
>
> Anyone else up for hacking together a better UI in a super fast timeframe?
>
> Some options I guess we have:
>
> #1: Leave it as is, yuck
> #2: A superstar comes in and makes the tagging UI rock (remember we're
> in string and ui change announce period now)
> #3: I pull some late nights in August sometime and come up with something
> #4: We modify tags to be a Tomboy Addin that's disabled by default and
> add it into the "Experimental" category
> #5: We comment-out tags entirely for 0.8 and have them be a big strong
> feature of 0.10
>
> Ideas, suggestions, volunteers?

First off, it's important to note that UI freeze is August 13th.

I think our tagging code is in fine shape, but I agree that the search
UI could use a lot of work.  The actual note tagging UI is good enough
from my point of view.

Do we know what needs to be done to "fix" the search UI?  Some
fundamental things that come to mind:
* (non-UI) Regular text search includes tags
* Tagging pane can be shown/hidden
* Ability to tag a note from the search UI (maybe via drag+drop?)
* (non-UI) When multiple tags are selected, is it an AND or an OR query?

I'm feel that most of these can be fixed by August 13th.  The question
is: Will that be sufficient?  Will those fixes make our search UI good
enough?

I'm not a heavy user of tags.  What does everyone else think?  What
does Tomboy need in order to meet your tagging needs?

Best,
Sandy