tag based file manager?

[Kristian Rink]

Folks;

not sure whether this is the right place to ask, nevertheless: I am heavily
making use of delicious, technorati and friends and, so, am used to the
concept of tags in order to sort my information which works out rather well.
Back to "local disk" however, I am still lost with the old-fashioned "folder
hierarchy" kind of structure mainly exposing the file system understanding
of the world to the user rather than providing the user with a, maybe, more
"natural" approach at sorting things. So to ask:

(a) Is there any way of making any file manager in 9.04 / 9.10 (be that the
one in KDE, nautilus, thunar or whatever) capable of intuitively and
straightforward allow for sorting files by tags rather than "just" file
system hierarchy? So far, googling for that I just found [1] which, asides
taking some work to get started, is not really an "easy-on" solution in
tagging large sets of documents, but it's the best I could find so far. Any
better solutions?

(b) If not: Is there a way of filing something like this as a general
"change request" kind of issue/bug? Reading around the sites I stumbled
across searching for a solution, this seems something not just of interest
to me. :)

TIA and all the best,
Kristian


[1]http://brib.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/howto-enable-tagging-in-ubuntu-gutsy-in-4-simple-steps/