[dolphin] [Bug 468334] Dolphin takes a few minutes starting when there is a lot of tags present

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468334

--- Comment #4 from tagwerk19 at innerjoin.org ---
(In reply to kiwifruit from comment #0)
> ... When opening dolphin, the KDE filepicker or gwenview, it freezes for a few
> minutes while it loads all the tags. On my system I have over 18'900 tags ...
Slightly hesitant and quizzical "OK......??"

Do you have 18,900 separate, individual, distinct tags? Or 18,900 files each
having a small handful of much loved tags.

I would fully expect that many distinct tags slugging the performance of
Dolphin (and quite likely the tags.so process/plugin beneath it). You could get
a

    "The process for the tags protocol died unexpectedly"

popup. I've tested with several thousand tags and it certainly takes a while to
open the "tags:/" page and similarly there's a long pause if you try to edit
the tag in the Information Panel (after an F11)

Probably a good idea to structure your tags, so you can have "Bird/Penguin" and
"Marsupials/Wombat" (and carry on with the Tree of Life). Your top level tags:/
folder will then just have Birds and Marsupials. You might still have many
thousands of different tags but they'll be split up. Just like having files in
different folders.

You certainly should not be having trouble if you have 18,900 each with a
handful of tags.

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