[Digikam-users] If tagging is to you an important tool for your photo management you should be aware of some issues.

[sleepless]

If tagging is to you an important tool for your photo management you 
should be aware of some issues.

If you drag a tag to a thumpnail and you say "assign tag to this item" 
it wil give the tag not to the thumpnail you point to but it is assigned 
to the
currently selected thumpnail instead. The thumpnail you pointed to wil 
get only the "child" tag and not the "parent" tags.
As for example. you drag
"Who
   We
    Me" (from now on written as "Who->We->Me") it will be assigned to 
the currently selected item(s) as the pointed to thumbnail will get 
Who/We/Me.

If you later want to add the tag "She" you will see in the former case
"Who->We->She
                       Me", as in the latter case whit "Who/We/Me",  
actually will "Me" be replaced with "She", so you will have now 
"Who/We/She" instead of
"Who/We/Me
                    She"

Removing tags can be a jeopardy too. I did not manage to get clear. It 
looks like I have sometimes to click on "remove this tag" and some other 
times on the
tagname itself. Sometimes the parents go with their children, somtimes 
the children with there parents, sometimes I have to click a lot (whit a 
lot of clicks
that do not lead to any action performed at all) before the whole 
tagtree is removed. Is there a system what I miss, or is there a need 
for improvement?

Besides that:
I wood strongly plea for a rightclick option menu
remove tag
remove tag with children
remove tag with parents

as well as a function in the thumbnail window rightclick "copy tag" and 
"past tag"

If you want to see the result of your labour, you will have to look in 
the properties window as the pop up window at the thumnails is not 
properly updated
after you performed an action.

Please comment on this, to get the picture as clear as possible before 
reporting as bug.

Rinus


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