It is very difficult to incorporate file tagging when, in this case, there are so many different types of image files. If there were just JPG files allowed, for example, it would be easier to add the capability of tagging a file. But with JPG, GIF, PNG, WAV, MP3 and so on all permitted here... O_O

As a matter of fact, I wish the operating system (or the desktop environment) to store those tags on its own into a separate data base. I don't want the tags to be included within each file.

For example, it would have been nice If I would have been able to tag the files I submitted to FA with a 'submitted' tag within my computer. It's only a piece of information related to a short-term need. It's not an intrinsic picture property. That's one of the reasons why I don't want to put it into -says- EXIFF meta-data of JPG file headers.

I might give you tons of usage of such a tag storage. And If you want to know, I wish it could be more than just tags. For example, I wish I could link a B&W picture with its colored counter-part.

That being said, I could have put Linux logical links from a "submitted" folder up to the files (even last Windows releases can handle fully transparent file links). But of course, those links are broken once one moves or renames the targeted files. And it's hard to find which folders a given file is linked in. And if one copies a file, the links are not cloned. And so on.

Some Linux filesystems allow to put meta-properties on files, but there's no user friendly interface on top of these features plus the data are mostly ignored and lost by the rest of the Linux system (e.g. backup tools). That's sad.

Hu... sorry for the technical declamation.