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Idea #12058: Tags shouldn't just apply to bookmarks, but other documents too.

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #1689: Allow tagging of files using ext3's extended attributes.
Written by plantboy1 the 9 Aug 08 at 19:11. Related project: Gnome. Status: New
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Firefox allows tags to be added to bookmarks so they can easily be found later on. It would be nice to be able to tag other system documents such as photos so they can be easily found as well.

While searching for local files, for photos especially, the name of the file must be known, which is a pain for people who take a lot of pictures and don't name them anything other than the default P0812102 from the camera. Being able to add tags would make finding files much easier. (Or am I just a freak who loses everything?)

[EDIT]: I noticed that tracker allows tags to be added to files from inside the search window to any file. I was thinking that this should be extended to the properties window for files, so that you can right click on a file, go to properties, then have a place to type tags.
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Written by plantboy1 the 9 Aug 08 at 19:11.
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Ssdg wrote on the 9 Aug 08 at 21:40
did you tried F-Spot?

plantboy1 wrote on the 9 Aug 08 at 21:58
Nope, but F-Spot won't run on my system for whatever reason. It crashes a few seconds after it's run. It would be nice to be able to go to properties and have a tab to add tabs to any file, imo though.

samcan wrote on the 10 Aug 08 at 15:09
Good idea, although I hope GNOME developers wouldn't make it just for photos; a system-wide file tagging mechanism would be nice.

I believe Windows Vista has a feature similar to this, and KDE 4.1 has a document-based tagging system as well. I don't know if KDE allows to search by tags yet.

For this feature to really take off, the user should be able to search by tags. Maybe I am being an idiot, and this is obvious. :-)

plantboy1 wrote on the 10 Aug 08 at 15:46
you said it better than I did. That was exactly what I was thinking

eMerzh wrote on the 10 Aug 08 at 18:31
In KDE 4.1 it's named nepomuka and it is ....awesome...

there is multiple info on the file like tags or note but, also some description of the file like "who send it to me" or "where could i download this file".... there is already some search possibility but in 4.2 more features will be added....

Love KDE :)

Endolith wrote on the 15 Oct 08 at 04:58
F-Spot and tracker's tags are no good, since they only apply to the app itself. We need the entire filesystem to be tag-based, so that any app can navigate based on (hierarchical) tags instead of folders.


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