wishlist: Global tags

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

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Forwarded bug from Debian:

Package: rednotebook
Version: 0.9.2-1
Severity: wishlist

I'm submitting this here, an hoping that the Debian maintainer will forward it
as a wishlist item to wherever appropriate.

Say that I have written an entry on some day, and tagged it e.g. with the tag
"work", this tag. The the tag "work" should be available on the drop-down menu
that appears when assigning a tag for a different text entry. Otherwise the user
needs to write the same tag name many times.

Or it should at least be possible to choose that a tag can be globally abailable
of this drop-down menu.

Best regards
Torquil Sørensen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (700, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages rednotebook depends on:
ii python 2.5.4-9 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-glade2 2.16.0-2 GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii python-gobject 2.20.0-1+b1 Python bindings for the GObject li
ii python-gtk2 2.16.0-2 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii python-support 1.0.6 automated rebuilding support for P
ii python-yaml 3.09-2+b2 YAML parser and emitter for Python

Versions of packages rednotebook recommends:
pn python-gtkspell <none> (no description available)
pn python-webkit <none> (no description available)

Versions of packages rednotebook suggests:
ii texlive-latex-extra 2009-7 TeX Live: LaTeX supplementary pack

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[Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp)]

Either I don't understand the request correctly or this functionality is already implemented. When I add the tag "Work" to a day, then navigate to a new day, the tag "Work" appears in the drop-down menu.

[Jonathan Wiltshire (jwiltshire)]

Setting status to Incomplete, which gives the original reporter 60 days to follow up on this bug.

[David Morrell (dsmorrell56)]

To reproduce the problem;
1) Click the Tag or Annotate buttons (either will do)
2) A dialogue box titled 'New Entry' appears
3) The dropdown on the first line does show a list of all categories that have been used in other entries but the dropbox on the second line (called 'Write Entry' does not. For example, if I have a category called 'Years', and I have made entries that refer to years 1956 and 1957, I can write a new entry and see 'Years' in the first dropdown box, but I cannot see 1956 and 1957 in the second one. I can only enter them by hand, with the risk of inconsistent entries.

[Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp)]

I think in your case using the category "Tags" better fits your needs. Have a look at the documentation:
http://rednotebook.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rednotebook/trunk/doc/help.html#toc3

Categories are used for content, not for categorization. Tags however categorize entries.

You can use the Tags 1956 and 1957. They will show up automatically in the drop down list.