An option to let me forbid subtasks from inheriting tags from their parents?

[Floyd Wan]

I know that there was a similar bug report (#351506 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/351506) which has been changed to "Won't fix", but I still have this problem. Here's my reason: I would sometimes apply a tag like "@always" to a task such as "study something", which means I'd like this task will always appear in my list whilst it's children are keep changing, both being added or dismissed. It doesn't make sense in this case that these subtasks get an "@always" tag.
I'm not sure whether other people agree with me or not. At least an option to let me do this will help me a lot.

[Luca Invernizzi (invernizzi)]

The bug you're referring to is about a different thing.

To sum up, you don't like the automatic tagging of subtasks (with the parent's tags), and you would like an option to disable that behavior.

I think we could add an option to toggle the "automatic tagging of subtasks", but I'm not sure if the added clutter is worth it (we are trying to keep things as simple as possible). Discussion is open :)

p.s.: I know that somewhere in our bugs this has been discussed, but I can't find the right bug.

[Floyd Wan (fwonce)]

Yes, you got what I mean. I think the added "clutter" is worth it. In my opinion, it's totally about the art of a seasoned tool to provide flexibility - different people use the same tool in different ways.

And if possible, I'll do it this way: an option to toggle the "Ask me whether to inherit tags every time" rather than "Automatic tagging of subtasks".

However, I'm still in sitting on the fence, won't kind of urge you guys to implement this soon provided that few people think it's an excellent idea.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 05:51:28AM -0000, Felex wrote:
> Yes, you got what I mean. I think the added "clutter" is worth it. In my
> opinion, it's totally about the art of a seasoned tool to provide
> flexibility - different people use the same tool in different ways.
>
> And if possible, I'll do it this way: an option to toggle the "Ask me
> whether to inherit tags every time" rather than "Automatic tagging of
> subtasks".

Perhaps it should be both a global option and a per-task option for
whether to inherit tags.

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

I agree that it would be useful.

Maybe, we should group some options for tags. For example, we could set a tag as a "project", which would mean that it would always appear in the tag list (maybe above others) but that subtask will not inherit from this tag.

My use case is the following :

I have a tag "objectieves". Under this tag, I create a task for each of my objectieves. I always want to see this tag because I want to know when I have no more objectives.

But any subtask of my objectives is not an objective by itself ! Thus, it should not be tagged.

[Izidor Matušov (izidor)]

Nobody implemented this feature even over so long time, closing it. Feel free to reopen it, if you want to work on it.