[Digikam-users] Easy tags management

[Johannes Wienke]

Hi,

Am 19.05.2010 01:46 schrieb Mateusz Loskot:
> Hi,
> 
> This is my first post to the list, thus I'd like to to say Hello!
> 
> I've been using digiKam for a few months. I'm pleased as punch.
> However, I have got some observation about tags management.
> 
> I heavily use tags. I have a couple of hundreds of tags.
> I don't structure tags in tree of subtags, but it's just a flat list.
> This makes the list in the tags management window is very long
> and requires plenty of scrolling, etc. It makes it nearly unusable
> while working with hundreds of photos.
> 
> In many cases, I add tags in a batch specifying "tag1,tag2,tag3".
> It works well as long as none of specified tag exists.
> If, for example, tag2 exists, then error is thrown.
> For existing tags, digiKam could just select and set them
> for selected photos.

Have a look here:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237452

> I haven't found any way to make copy tags from one picture to another.
> It would be really helpful if tags can be copied and pasted
> i.e. to text editor as a comma separated string.
> Such string could be edited, copied to clipboard and used
> directly to assign tags for selected photos.

This is also a known feature request. You can find it in the bug tracker
as well.

> That way tags management would become more efficient,
> without any need to scroll along the list and select tags.
> 
> A shortcut to reset focus location in the tags tree would be useful to.
> It is annoying to remember before adding new tags if another tag is was
> selected or the root node has focus, so new tags can be added directly
> below the root.
> 
> Perhaps I'm just missing some digiKam Fu and it all works well,
> then I'd be thankful for some tips.

If this isn't covered by one of the existing feature requests or bugs,
please open a new report.

Regards
Johannes

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