[dolphin] [Bug 497416] New: Improved tag management

[postix]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497416

            Bug ID: 497416
           Summary: Improved tag management
    Classification: Applications
           Product: dolphin
           Version: 24.08.3
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: postix at posteo.eu
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

Tagging files in Dolphin is an awful UX. 

Adding a tag:

Right click the file -> Add tag -> Choose an existing tag or create a new one
Once you do that, the context menu vanishes. Meaning, adding several tags is a
lot of mouse work.

If you want to add tags to several files at once, you can't do that, there's no
context menu and the property dialog doesn't show a Details tab.

Removing a tag:
Right click the file -> Choose "Add(!) tag" -> Click the tag.
If you have several tags to remove this is a lot of mouse work.

How to remove a single tag from all files? Go to the left tag section of the
left panel -> click on your keyword -> in the view select your tag and delete
it. You are prompted with a "Deletion is permanent" dialog, which looks like
for regular files. So what am I deleting actually?

How to improve this situation?

It'd be really appreciated to have nice tagging system, which essentially lives
in a modal window or Dolphin's settings:
The user could add tags or sub-tags in a tree-structure, rename them and all of
those don't need to be associated with any files.

Instead of having a context menu, which vanishes all the time, when interacting
with it, a modal dialog window would show up, where the user can easily select
from set of the configured tags or create new ones.

It would also guide the user how to create nested tags. There's surely more to
consider, but that that already be a good starting point.

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