quick add a task when in a subtag view

[Luca Invernizzi]

- create task A with tags @a @b
- make @b child of @a
- click on @b in the tags pane, so to view tasks tagged with that
- using the quickadd textbox add a task Z

Z will have tag @b, but not @a.

I find myself adding tag @a manually each time. I suppose it should be better if that was done automagically.
What are your opinions on this?

[Kevin Mehall (kevin-mehall)]

If @b is a subtag of @a, task Z will show up on @a's task list, so tagging it @a only serves to mark it with @a's color. I suppose I've done this manually: for example, one of my parent tags is colored dark blue, and its children are other shades of blue.

I typically treat parent tags as just a container for subtags. I don't tag any tasks with the parent tags, except in cases when the task goes in that general category but doesn't deserve its own subtag. That is, I use them more like hierarchical folders than tagging with both parent tag and child.

My one slight concern with this proposal is that it would create an inconsistent behavior with the other ways of adding tags, since adding @b in the task editor does not automatically add @a.

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

I agree with Kevin that it would make thing inconsistent. We should have ways to add easily tag to tasks (like drag-n-drop, right click menu in the tree, …) but, currently, I would not accept this bug. I think further discussion is needed.

[Luca Invernizzi (invernizzi)]

Drag-n-drop seems a perfectly fine solution to me

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

so marking this as WONTFIX.

See bug #460763 for drag-n-drop