[Digikam-devel] [Bug 117242] New: Tag hierarchy should be managed automatically

[Jesús Jiménez]

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           Summary: Tag hierarchy should be managed automatically
           Product: digikam
           Version: 0.8.0
          Platform: Debian testing
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: jesjimenez gmail com


Version:           0.8.0 (using KDE KDE 3.4.2)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

I usually create tags for both people and places. In order to organize them, I group them in tree-like categories, something like "Paris" and "Marseille" being children tags of "France", "John" and "Mary" being children tags of "Friends" while "Mom" and "Dad" being children tags of "Family", and so on. The problem is that, right now, if I tag a picture as "Paris", I must also manually tag it as "France". 

This is a quite annoying behaviour, because I usually only set bottom-level tags and, when I try to show, let's say, all France pictures, no one is shown because I've only set the cities name. I think the logical behaviour for digikam when a tag is set, would be to automatically set all of his parent tags or, said in other words, when a tag with children tags is selected, all pictures of her children tags should be shown. 

I don't know why anyone would prefer the current behaviour of independently setting parent and children tags. After all, a tree categorization implies that there's a relation between a parent and their children, and managing them as if they were independent is quite counter-intuitive.