Hello, I just wanted to put forward a suggestion for a usability improvement in Dolphin.
TLDR:
WHY?
Because it will benefit users that make heavy use of xattrs Tags (think 30+ tags)
HOW?
By making the text field that adds a new tag to also act as a filter for the existing tags.
Here is my suggestion in more detail:
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Rename the label next to the text field. Change it from “Create new tag” to: “Filter & Create new tag” (or something similar to that effect)
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Retain ALL the current functionality of the text field.
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When the user types into the text field, the existing Tag list gets filtered and lists only tags that contain the given text.
Example 1:
Based on my screenshot, if the user types: “old” or “_old” etc
Then the tag list should only present the tags named:
tag_old_01 - tag_old_10
and
tag_very_old_01 - tag_very_old_10
Example 2:
Again based on my screenshot, if the user types: “very” or “very_” etc
Then the tag list should only present the tags named:
tag_very_new_01 - tag_very_new_10
and
tag_very_old_01 - tag_very_old_10
This helps a user with many (30+) tags to narrow down his list of current tags. This makes it a lot easier to check if a similar/relevant tag already exists.
I would be happy to hear your thoughts. Maybe we can come up with an alternative and more efficient implementation for Tag filtering?
If there are no major objections to this proposal and someone would like to implement it I would be more than happy to also provide a small financial incentive: $200 (USD)