[Digikam-devel] [Bug 139547] tag hierarchy automatic fill

[Daniel Bauer]

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------- Additional Comments From linux daniel-bauer com  2007-01-05 15:44 -------
Hi Gilles,

yes, this is really fine!

"backported also in Tags Filter view pop-up menu": Yes, absolutely. It should work the same everywhere.

I think the tag behaviour should be the same all over digiKam, no matter which way a user takes to add/remove a tag. So, when "toggle auto" is set, the according value should be used also in all other tag-settings methods.

right now you get very different results depending on how you assign a tag:
(for the following I checked "toggle auto->parents" in right side bar)

- selecting one photo in album and clicking the box of a child selects the parents (as it should be)
- drag and drop the child from Comments/Tags-sidebar assigns only the child (it should also assign parents, the menu asks if the complete tag-family should be assigned, but only the child is assigned, see attachement testtag.png)

- no parents assigned also with drag and drop from "Tag Filters"
- no parents assigned also with "assign Tag" from right-click menu in album

the same is true for removing tags (parents only get removed when removing the child in the Comments/Tags sidbar, but not when using context menu in album)

This is why I voted to put these settings in settings->configure digikam->metadata (but this is a matter of taste, of course)

There are also some other issues, which I think we have already said in another thread:

- selecting multiple pictures and clicking a tag assigns it only to the first image
- assigning tags to multiple pictures is possible with drag and drop, but then parents are not assigned as mentioned above

Also, I found no way to remove tags again from several pics without doing it for each and every single one. (While clicking fast for the test, I draged a grand-child and clicked "to all items". To remove from all I had to delete the tag itself.)

In this regard I have a small suggestion: I'd change the order of the items in the drag and drop menu (1: assign to Selected 2: to Dropped, 3: to All), because I think usually you do an action for the selected items, only sometimes just for the dropped, and rarely for all.

Daniel