Background: At the right sidebar, in the tag-section, a tag can be selected by clicking the selection-box. This is ok, because a tag has only 2 states, here. However, in the filter-section, a tag has 3 states (shown by both, a selection box as well as a "tag filter mode" sign on the tag-icon: "ignore" (deselect, grayed-out icon), "must have" (selected, "+" sign), "must not have" (selected, "-" sign) Problem: - the "must not have" status can only be set by the context menu and, therefore, requires "a lot of mouse-clicks" - this is both tedious as well as inconsistent to the "must have" setting Proposal: it is proposed to use both visual elements to set the status as they are used to visualize the status as follows: 1. "deselect": set the tag-icon to "grey" (as is) 2. "select": set the tag-icon to "+" (as is) 3. single click on tag-icon: toggle tag-icon to "-" (and "+" again…) => this allows to set any mode by two mouse-clicks --- Another proposal is based on the full de-coupling of selection and filter mode. 1. select/deselect activates the filter and, herewith, allows a preview of the tag's influence 2. the tag-icon represents the filter-mode, "+" or "-". -> this would allow to set the tag-filter to "-" and, later, to de-activate the filter. By activating the filter, the filter is set to "-" mode (and not automatically to "+", as now) Remark: whether it should be possible to set a tag both as "ignore" and "selected", is an open question. --- - double-click on the icon will expand/collapse the sub-tree (as is)
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Confirmed: in 7.6.0 on Windows this issue still exists. I just spent a bunch of time trying to figure out how to exclude a tag, as it's well hidden. I don't quite follow the second proposed solution in the original report, but the first solution sounds intuitive: allow clicking the tag to cycle through ignore (blank), select (checked), and exclude (-).