Allow an icon keyword to be assigned as primary keyword for selection, etc

[matgb]

Title:
Allow an icon keyword to be assigned as primary keyword for selection, etc

Area:
icons

Summary:
For icons that have multiple keywords, make it possible to have one only that appears on the drop down menu for posting and commenting.

Description:
Many of my icons have aquired more than one keyword over the years, some because they may have multiple usage contexts, others because I've given them the keyword of an old, deleted icon.

While I might like to merge the keywords together, in some cases I would like to keep both keywords extant, in order that I may change icons again in the future.

Example: I have an icon tagged both ORLY and YARLY. At one point, I had a different owl for both, but currently I have Daleks and Cybermen conversing--I may in the future want to split them up, but currently both keywords appear in every drop down menu, cluttering up my already long dropdown (and, presumably, mildly increasing server load, etc each time).

If the first listed keyword for each icon was allowed as an option to be the primary keyword, others could be retained but my selection menues would be a lot easier to navigate and less annoying.

If this isn't possible, a way of listing old keywords that have been renamed would be useful, as they can still then be resurrected.

(NB this would also help those crossposting who have more icons on one or other site, they can use the full keyword set on both sites but still have manageable selection menues)

Edit: To clarify, my suggestion is to allow people to choose, if they wish, a primary keyword, not to force all icons to only have one primary keyword, I want to supplement and improve current behaviour, not replace it.

Poll #1834 Allow an icon keyword to be assigned as primary keyword for selection, etc

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Should be implemented as-is.
9 (36.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (8.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
5 (20.0%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (32.0%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (4.0%)

Comments

[yvi]

wouldn't "merge keywords together" consist of editing "keywordA, keywordB" into "keywordA & keywordB

Not possible with the current implementation of renaming icons - you can only rename to the same number of keywords. I suppose we'll see some suggestions for that when the feature goes live, though.

[kaigou]

Could someone give me some working examples of what it'd look like, then? Because given your answer, I have no idea what's meant by 'merge keywords'.

you can only rename to the same number of keywords

Just so I'm clear (because I'm not): do you mean:

[ICONA] keywords: big, tall, grand
[ICONB] keywords: wide, far, spread

Means that if I want to rename ICONA, I could do: "great, huge, vast," but NOT "great, huge, vast, spacious" if I want to retain the link between ICONA and the existing or edited keywords?

[matgb]

Can't actually answer your questions about the new feature, I've not used it yet, and specifically it's not what this suggeestion is, it's a complement to it that keeps all keywords separate (as is current) but makes the dropdowns easier to use.

[yvi]

Means that if I want to rename ICONA, I could do: "great, huge, vast," but NOT "great, huge, vast, spacious" if I want to retain the link between ICONA and the existing or edited keywords?

Yes, that's what I mean; I am not 100% certain this is true, however, as I didn't test it much and mostly just looked at the sourcecode.

However, in my understanding you could, in that example, solve the problem by renaming to "great, huge, vast", which would map:

big -> great

tall -> huge

grand -> vast

and then add the 'spacious' keyword, which is obviously used nowhere.

I think the problem with having different numbers of keywords starts when you have 3 keywords and want to rename to 2 - how do you map that? Though as soon as that feature goes live I will make a suggestion to make renaming to 1 keyword possible. That would greatly reduce the clutter for some people.