Is there a way of tagging files and then searching on those tags?

I can tag music files in Amarok and picture files in Digikam.

But there is no option to tag other files in Dolphin/ Plasma.

Or am I missing something?

Tags

Tagging your Files: http://vhanda.in/blog/2014/07/tagging-your-files/
- you could tag you files to the extended attributes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes

With the Dolphin (17.04.3)
tooltip (Change button):


Information panel (Change button):


Editor:



View/search tags

search by tag/rating/comment: viewtopic.php?f=154&t=124045
- Baloo, included
- Recoll, powerfull tool: http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/

Searching tags with the Recoll (1.23.2)



More

Freedesktop common extended file attributes: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Common ... ttributes/
Extended attributes: the good, the not so good, the bad: https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/pages/extattrs.html
CLI Magic: Use Extended Attributes for better file management: https://www.linux.com/news/cli-magic-us ... management