Taxonomy image with more view page

how about 50,00 terms on one page. thats what my client has. yes, moving these to the term form makes good sense.

I agree wholeheartedly. From a usability perspective I think taxonomy_image could be vastly improved.

It's not all that hard to move the logic, in my opinion, it's just a matter of doing it. If I get time, I'll try and post a patch, but in the interim, I'll just toss out what you need from my experience (in case it saves someone leg work that didn't know and might be interested):

_form_alter --> for actually modifying the taxonomy form (form_id -- taxonomy_form_vocabulary & taxonomy_form_term)
_taxonomy_insert, _taxonomy_update, _taxonomy_delete --> for handling the post

So, all the necessary tools are available, it's just tackling the work of porting (or replicating) it from the taxonomy_image_admin function into other places that are going to flow more logically for an admin.

gonna follow up on my own post because I realized I completely mislead anyone wanting to work on this, it's not taxonomy_insert,taxonomy_update, taxonomy_delete, & you don't even need to use form_alter....
everything can be done via the hook_taxonomy, and sorry if I mislead anyone by that completely incorrect post.

lets focus on the patch at http://drupal.org/node/70971