Delete tag from Tag Browser

[mihal.v]

It seems there is no way to delete tag at all from tag browser. There is no 'Delete' button or 'Delete' item in context menu. When I replace tag with nothing calibre offers to delete it but as a result I see following

calibre, version 2.25.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>TypeError</b>:QTableWidgetItem.setText(str): first argument of unbound method must have type 'QTableWidgetItem'

calibre 2.25 [64bit] isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Windows-8-6.2.9200 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '8', '6.2.9200')
Python 2.7.9
Windows: ('8', '6.2.9200', '', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Extract ISBN && Count Pages && Find Duplicates
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\dialogs\tag_list_editor.py", line 219, in finish_editing
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\dialogs\tag_list_editor.py", line 44, in setText
TypeError: QTableWidgetItem.setText(str): first argument of unbound method must have type 'QTableWidgetItem'

[Charles Haley (cbhaley)]

You are not talking about the tag browser but are instead talking about the "Manage Tags" dialog. In that dialog, when you set a tag to nothing you get a message "Item is blank: An item cannot be set to nothing. Delete it instead", which is not an "offer to delete". There is a "Delete" icon (the green recycle arrows) on that dialog that deletes the current tag, so there is a way to delete a tag in Manage Tags.

I agree that it shouldn't throw the error when you empty the value and it produces the "You can't do that" message. I will fix that. It won't delete the tag.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every Friday.

 status fixreleased