Tag system for files / directories

[pixel-boy]

Be able to define a list of tags in ProjectSettings which can be assigned to files ( scenes, resources and probably external file like PNG,WAV etc... ) and directories.

Why

1 - Better navigation in the file system:

Navigating in big projects is tedious, the "favorite" option is supposed to help with this, but I've never found it practical, and I think a tag system could be an improved version of it (it would be possible to have default tags like "favorite" "debug" etc...)

Another example in the case of level creation, it would be possible to create an "LD" tag to easily find all the level design elements.

2 - Get file lists via code

It's often for debug features that I feel the need for it, but being able to get the list of all the files of a resource type (ex: ResourceItem) or all the scenes that are of a certain class (ex: Map) would be nice, and the tag system could allow to do this.

How it could work

Create tags

In the file system, tags could appear discreetly to the right of the files (the complete list could be displayed on hover)

Assigning tags to files / directories

• Via the interface in the file system
  

• With annotation for custom classes
  

• And via code ( maybe with DirAccess / FileAccess ? )
  DirAccess.add_tag(file_path,tag)
DirAccess.remove_tag (file_path,tag)

Filter by tag

In file system

With code

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#10457 This proposal is not the same but offers another way to improve navigation in the file system