Comment 3 for bug 741442

A separate dialog would work, but I think that might make it cumbersome to edit tags quickly. To make tag editing effective we would need to allow for the selection of multiple items and tagging them together.

Consider the following scenario: The user has 25 items that are tagged with Tag X and wants to tag all of those items with Tag Y. Right now we have to process each item one at a time. Can we make it possible for the user to select those 25 items and tag them together in a single step?

Here are some possibilities:

There could be a separate tag editing pane that the user can show or hide and it would go on the right-hand-side of the screen. So the user would select Tag X on the left-hand pane, select the items of interest from the list, and then place a check mark next to Tag Y on the right-hand pane. I also think having an extra vertical pane would be smart because widescreen resolution are very common now: screens have a lot of horizontal pixels, but not many vertical pixels.

Another option would be to have a "tag editing mode" button. The button would toggle between tag selection (the way the Tag Pane works now) and a tag editing mode (check boxes are shown next to each tag). Again, the user could make a selection of items and then hit the "tag edit" button, which would change the Tag Pane into a list of checkboxes, and then edit the tags as needed.

I hope these suggestions help. And thank you for taking over the project and continuing its development.