A few questions about how aliases work ^^Posted on: 01/09/09 04:54PM
Hi there ^^
So I was thinking about suggesting some aliases, but I'd prefer to be sure exactly how the system works before I do so ^^
If you go on the aliases list page, you can see 3 columns : "alias", "to", and the reason why it was suggested.
My questions are : if "A" is in "alias" and "B" is in "to"...
- will a search on "A" give results that have the "B" tag, even if they don't have the "A" tag ?
- will a search on "B" give results that have the "A" tag, even if they don't have the "B" tag ?
- will "A" be replaced by "B" (or the opposite), when someone tries to add the "A" or "B" tag to a picture ?
I'm wondering about this because I thought that, depending on how it works, it might be a simple way to implement searching by aspect ratio, at least for the standard monitor resolutions.
That is, IF we could do, using the aliases trick, so that searching for example for "4:3" would give all results that are tagged with "640x480", "800x600", "1024x768", etc... BUT searching for "1024x768" wouldn't give all the results that are tagged as "4:3".
Edit : Are there also ways to make something like "container-aliases" that, huh, "contain" a sub-group of aliases ?
For example, the "wallpaper" would include "4:3" and "5:4" and "16:10" and "16:9", while "4:3" would include "640x480", "800x600", "1024x768" etc. I guess you get the idea ? ;)