add a paste-tags button in the relation editor

[dieterdreist]

I think it would really help editing to have a paste-tags button in the relation editor. It would work like the paste-tags-function does, but instead of copying the tags to the selected object it would copy them into the open relation (the one where you click the paste tags button).

See attached screenshot how this could look like.

[skyper]

You already can do that in map view.

• Just copy the needed tag into buffer (Ctrl+C),
• select the relations via relation list
• and paste the tags (Ctrl+Shift+V)

Is this really needed within the relation editor ?

[dieterdreist]

Yes, would be a huge usability improvement. I hardly never open relations from the relations list. Usually I open them selecting a member and clicking in the properties list, its much faster and easier to find the relation there.

[skyper]

It is also possible to select the relation and to select the relation in the relation list. Both from the right mouse click menu in the properties list.

[dieterdreist]

Yes, I found this out in the meantime, thank you. Last time I tried to select a relation and paste tags to it, it didn't work yet, but with the current state this enhancement is not very important any more, I agree (on the other hand I guess it is trivial to do and would still be a small usability enhancement, so I don't see why not to do it). I lowered the importance of this ticket to trivial.

[skyper]

Replying to dieterdreist:

Yes, I found this out in the meantime, thank you. Last time I tried to select a relation and paste tags to it, it didn't work yet, but with the current state this enhancement is not very important any more, I agree (on the other hand I guess it is trivial to do and would still be a small usability enhancement, so I don't see why not to do it). I lowered the importance of this ticket to trivial.

The big advantage of the current state is that:

• you can paste to several relations and not just to one.
• you do not need the relation editor

I think the relation editor has already a lot of functions and it would be better to lead the user to the already implemented features than to add the same functions on different places.

[akks]

I think this fuction can be useful as an addition (some people does not like keyboard:) ), but button should be placed in left panel, not on top ( Add, Delete, _Copy tags?_, _Paste tags_)

[simon04]

Somehow related: #5658

[akks]

It is not so simple to these buttons because of relation editor dialog structure - many independent reusable panels.
It seems TagEditorPanel and
TagTable should be edited...

[skyper]

Replying to akks:

I think this fuction can be useful as an addition (some people does not like keyboard:) ), but button should be placed in left panel, not on top ( Add, Delete, _Copy tags?_, _Paste tags_)

I already have problems right now with buttons not shown due to small window height. If you'll add more buttons to the left panel, please make it scrollable.

Thanks

[akks]

I did not mean main left toolbar or relation member left toolbar. The proposed toolbar is placed left from relation tag table of relation editor dialog and currently have only two buttons - add and delete.

[skyper]

Ticket #6406 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.

[Don-vip]

I like this idea :) I agree it could be a useful usability improvement.