Tagged Journal Proposal

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> I'm not a fan of lots of little / characters everywhere (fine if a user want
> to type them in the unified text search area to look somewhere specific),
> but you could show entries that came (or are) outside of the local datastore
> by using different shaped tag icons that hint at the differences between a
> path tags, and arbitrary tags:

Ooh, I like the look of that a lot.

It does seem like it would be a little harder to learn that typing '/'
gives that magic shaped tag, but maybe tag-completion does that for us
by magic.  ie, in a context where "foo/" makes sense, typing
"foo<tab>" will give you the slash-shaped foo.

Now, how to code that in GTK... (sigh)  Maybe splitting the widget
into body and 'cap' will make dealing with non-rectangular widgets
less painful.
 --scott

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