[digikam] [Bug 376463] New: Improve keyboard assignment and useage of tags

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            Bug ID: 376463
           Summary: Improve keyboard assignment and useage of tags
           Product: digikam
           Version: 5.5.0
          Platform: Appimage
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Tags
          Assignee: [hidden email]
          Reporter: [hidden email]
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Currently (5.5.0 appimage) the tags input field can be activated by "T" but
there is no (obvious) way of getting back to the images index (except for
5x"Shift tab" or 7x "tab" to come full circle).
Is it possible to assign "ESC" as a way to leave the tags filter input field
and get the cursor focus back to the images thumbnails (to be able to navigate
between images again), or the currently viewed image (so you can select the
next image)?

Also, when the cursor focus is at the tags tree, the "up/down" cursor keys
could select tags, while the "left/right" cursor keys could select the
next/previous image (preview and thumbnail mode).

Also, there is no (obvious) way of assigning single key ("A", "L", "M")
keyboard shortcuts to tags. Keys with modifiers (Ctrl, Alt, Meta) work - is
there a reason why? I can assign single keys to other functions (e.g.
Lighttable or Batch manager).

Thanks!

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--- Comment #1 from Kusi <[hidden email]> ---

1)
pressing enter after having selected a tag will keep the the focus on the tag
edit box. Pressing enter a second time moves the focus back to the main window
and advances to the next image.

See the commit message in
https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/commit/?id=d13f94a8c5cf18a7c3c19c522fa484e5b7fb1bd9

Unfortunately, the sorting-by-history is broken since the DK5 port.

2)
up/down is needed for navigation in the main view in my opinion

3)
you can assign a single key shortcut to a tag via detour: you add a
Ctrl+<letter> shortcut via tag properties. The tag then appears in
settings->shortcuts, where you can add a custom single letter shortcut. This is
indeed more complicated than it should be

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--- Comment #2 from Jens <[hidden email]> ---
1) OK, I didn't know this. Can this be made more obvious? It sounds quite
efficient if you know about it. (Maybe as a placeholder text in the tags
textfield, like "Enter tag, press ENTER twice to return to photos" or as a
tooltip.)

2) Yes, maybe. It would perhaps be too confusing. There's always a tradeoff to
be made between efficiency and intuition of a certain feature.

3) True. Why can't the single key shortcut be entered in the tag settings
directly?

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