ISSUE: Dolphin currently provides a poor user experience, and poor usability, for Users wishing to order and access their files semantically (using tags) rather than hierarchically (using folders). Dolphin already has ability to access, sort, and display tags (using Nepomuk). However this is poorly exposed. There appears to be no other recent, maintained, and useful software equivalents to provide efficient semantic file-browsing/organisation in Linux-based systems, which increased the urgency of this bug, particularly for corporate users. Dolphin, apparently, formerly had better ability to show tags in the panel. USER CANNOT: 1) search for tags (see also Bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304406); 2) see a list of existing tags; 3) drag a file/s onto a tag to tag it/them; 4) click on a tag easily to see all the items under that tag. PROPOSAL: This proposal would create a new panel item: tags. USER COULD: 1) display or hide the tag panel; 2) set the panel to display a) all tags, b) selected tags. 3) add tags to the panel for display (in a similar way as adding places to the places panel); 4) add tags to the panel by dragging them to the appropriate tag in the panel; 5) add files to a tag in the panel by dragging them there; set the panel to display only selected tags; 6) click the title of the panel ('tags') to display all tags in the main Dolphin pane. Reproducible: Always
Typographical errors in description, apologies: 'user could' section should read: USER COULD: 1) display or hide the tag panel; 2) set the panel to display a) all tags, b) selected tags; 3) add tags to the panel for display (in a similar way as adding places to the places panel); 4) add tags to the panel by dragging them to the tag panel; 5) add files to a tag in the tag panel by dragging them to that tag; 6) click the title of the panel ('tags') to display all existing tags in the main Dolphin pane.
Thanks for the report! The idea looks interesting [1]. However, I don't understand why you made this report a blocker for bug 304406. I don't see why a "Tags Panel" would be the only way to provide some kind of "Search for tags". [1] Just to prevent any misunderstandings: This does not mean that I will work on such a thing. I don't have any time for major feature development in the near future, so someone must volunteer to write and maintain the required code before we could discuss if it makes sense to add such a panel and how it could be done.
(In reply to comment #2) > Thanks for the report! The idea looks interesting [1]. However, I don't > understand why you made this report a blocker for bug 304406. I don't see > why a "Tags Panel" would be the only way to provide some kind of "Search for > tags". Hi, Thanks for your feedback. I was originally considering dependencies, but realised that there wasn't a dependency between this bug and bug 304406, either way. So I added bug 304406 as 'See also', but forgot to untick the dependency, apologies.
Resolved with tags section now appearing in Places panel: https://phabricator.kde.org/D7700 Other improvements will be in separate bugs: - searching multiple tags - moving position of tags section - choosing which tags to display