[Digikam-devel] [Bug 128533] Why nested tags? What about freeform/freestyle tagging?

[Tim Middleton]

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------- Additional Comments From x vex net  2007-01-14 04:40 -------
Certianly some of the suggestions regarding faster tagging interfaces are very valid (truly a simple input box is the fastest way in a lot of cases; though some of the current interfaces are very useful in some situations)

But this "bug" title complains about the hierarchical "nesting" ability of the tags. The solution is simple: if you don't like it, don't use it! You can simply just keep one giant list of tags with no problem. 

I (and apparently some others) really like the nested tagging. Furthermore I really like being able to have spaces in my tags so they don't look idiotic and unintuitive like the joined-word tags seen on flickr and elsewhere. 

I agree there could be some better interfaces added for tagging, but what's there is pretty good... at least, overall, better than any other desktop application i've tried on any platform. And i've tried quite a few in the past. My previous favourite for tagging actually is an old windows program called ThumbsPlus... but that was so long ago the term "tags" had not been invented yet and we still just called them "keywords" back then. <-;

An example use case for me is in doing a lot of nature photography: I like to add some very specific tags for names of plants and animals. But sometimes in searching i want a more general grouping... so for a simple example i can look up just frogs by searching for that tag. Or i can look up both frogs and salamanders by selecting the parent tag ("amphibians"). If tags were flat and i wanted this capability i'd have to add a half dozen tags to every picture rather than just the most specific tag in a tree (or i'd have to do a much more complex search query to think of every possible amphibian that might show up). Nested tags are an awesome organizational tool!