bbernhard
commented
3 years ago I also thought about that in the past.
The reason I haven't implemented it yet is because I was afraid that it's easier then to forget about changing the label on the left - especially when you are in the flow. I imagine that it's pretty hard to ensure then that the user always has the correct label on the left selected before drawing a polygon. My gut feeling is, that showing everything per default automatically leads to a different annotation workflow. Right now we have more like a "all of a kind" workflow, where you annotate all objects of a specific label and then move on to the next label. By showing all polygons at once, I think that would naturally change. (e.g to a "fill the gaps" workflow, where you are switching randomly between labels). And as soon as you are in the flow, I think it's pretty easy to forget about changing labels. My feeling is that showing only a subset of polygons at once makes it less likely that the user forgets about switching the label - and every label switch "resets your brain" again.
I am a bit worried that no matter which tweaks we implement (color coding, transparency, etc) that switching between the labels is just too tiresome (and error prone). I think the only is probably to completely change the annotation workflow and implement a different workflow (e.g: "draw + label" - i.e draw a polygon and label it afterwards)?
dobkeratops
Imagine if 'show all' was a perment visibility toggle, rather than a temporary peek mode.
with a tweak to distinguish the current label from the rest, view-all would often be useful whilst actually annotation: i.e. it helps you see where you've been already, and helps you align one annotation with the next (eg annotating left & right halves of something etc); it's also just very satisfying to see the annotations accumulate this way.. like building wireframes.
Possible tweaks to it's rendering;