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

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> 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. 

I cannot reproduce: In a simple test, the tag is assigned to the dropped-on 
item if I select "Assign to this".

> 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.

So the dropped-on item will get "Me" and the selected items will get all three 
tags additionally ??

> 
> 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"

So one already assigned tag is replaced by a newly assigned tag??

> 
> 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?

To which user interface element are you referring here?

> 
> 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.

The tooltip's text is recreated each time, I couldnt see any problem here in a 
short test.