Enhancement: batch tagging

[sleekspeed22]

I think this will help many of us who have large collections of photos built over many years. Having some keywords that are usually right is better than no keywords. I had been using googlephoto to store lower resolution photos as a 3rd backup and so I can take advantage of the search capabilities... I then do a search and get the filename and them look for that file locally. I prefer having my photos local and not share with google if I can.

• ability to set keywords for many photos automatically in a batch process and also in an import process (governed by paramters)
• set paramters (set max number of keywords, set max keywords in the same category, set folders this should apply to, or regex parameters... as a filter of what to include in keyword update)
• take some keywords from folder structure (i.e. date, and others), ask if these should also be applied in this batch
• group all possible keywords into keyword categories... then allow the user to select all or some of the cateories for matching as keywords (hoping this helps with accuracy... if you know you don't have / or don't care about a certain category then turn that off... perhaps this is overkill)
• Most IMPORTANT: then keep a tag or keyword to identify photos that were only automatically tagged and which were manually reviewed/tagged... rules should not apply to manual tags and manual tags should persist (unless asked by user) when they are run through batch tagging...
• don't know if it is possible to keep note which tags were manually set vs automatically... if only at image level then definitely need to ask user what they want to do with files already manually tagged (overwrite and reset manually reviewed flag or do not update or append new values and keep a manually review or append and clear manual reviewed flag) when batch tagging
• need a filters/views of photos with and/or without manual review so user can review them and update or use to find a specific photo

I know this is not a spec... happy to write something more precise if this is of interest to develop. I wish I knew more and could help more but my coding skills practically noexistant.

[scheckmedia]

Hello sleekspeed22,
Thank you for this detailed feature request. I think what you describe here is more related to darktable than my small plugin. The plugin is only an interface to add automatic tagging functionality to darktable but not overhaul or extend darktables' tagging mechanism. The tags you set using this plugin only occur in darktables' database and do not manipulate your images' EXIF data.

A batch tagging feature request is already open and will be investigated in a near future (#3 #4 ).