Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Compiler: gcc3.4.3 OS: Linux With big collections list of tags can grow really big. Also complexity of tags combinations can be increasing. In this circumstances it is hard to know which tags are associated with given picture. That could be fixed in two ways: a) Add one line with list of tags inside of Tags fieldset in C&T panel (above search field). Pro: most obvious place Con: in album view possible redundancy with visible tags in photo plates. But with C&T panel it is highly probable users will turn off additional info from album view (it could be turned off by default). b) Introduce new field in status bar of IE. Pro: with increasing importance of tags in digiKam this is important information and probably deserves its own place always visible (as album name is visible in title bar). Con: currently visible info in status bar (name, position in album, zoom, dimensions) is purely "physical" while tags are "semantical". It may introduce some ambiguity.
In 0.9.0 there will be a right side bar in the IE which gives you comments & tags, also in digikam main view. In this setup you can still see the image in the middle part which shows you the currently assigned tags. For 0.8.* you have to live with the current situation, sorry about that.