I really like hierarchical tags. Let's assume I have the following hierarchy: - Parent - Child1 - Child2 If I tag an image with Child2, I would expect that Parent tag is implicitly given too. I suppose that's optional in digikam, so be it. But in Thumbnails view, I wouldn't want to see any parent tags of a chosen child tag. So in my example, the thumbnail view would show only Child2 tag, but not Parent tag (even though it's assigned too). Because I'm using the hierarchies a lot and sometimes rather deep, I get a huge amount of tag labels in each image although I have only chosen perhaps 1-3 leaf tags. This is really annoying. I don't quite understand the use case for assigning a child tag but not its parents. But I guess some people like to do that and they probably want then to see all the assigned tags. I would rather assign the parent tags implicitly but only show the assigned leaf tags (or assigned tags which have no assigned child tags). So I would hope there at least would be an option for Thumbnails view to hide those tags that have child tags that have been assigned too. I hope I was able to describe this clearly. Does this make sense to you?
You can set parents, children or both automatically. Right click in the tags area, choose "Toggle Auto".
Jaakko, Did you seen the previous comment from Simon ?
I assume, this bug it not about setting the tags, but about showing. If in the example below the tags are set as follows [X] Parent [ ] Child1 [X] Child2 Currently digikam 7.2.0 shows two lines in the mouseover of the thumbnail view: Parent Parent/Child2 Jaakko suggest to only show the leafs, so only one line: Child2 Other option would be, to show the whole path, but not the redundant parents: Parent/Child2 If the tag tree hierarchy is quite deep, the current implementation leads to a lot of useless information lines in the mouseover.