The macOS version is distributed as a .pkg and isn't signed or notarized. That's a no-go for me. Any reason why they don't just ship a .app in a disk image?
Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
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#82How reliable is the face recognition in 7.0? In older versions it was not as good as closed source software like picasa.
In they link they said that previous version was about 80% successful, now it's 95% and doesn't have issues with blurred images, profiles, various obstructions, pet faces etc.
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I haven't seen anything open source that comes close to Lightroom, even if you only consider LR versions from ten years ago. Although LR used to have the habit of getting really slow with larger libraries, it mostly just works and doesn't get in the way, while stuff like darktable is just... weird. Darktable has similar issues to GIMP, as in, that it hypothetically has a lot of features, but the usability is pretty p…
How about RawTherapee? How does it stack against darktable and LR?
RawTherapee and Darktable is simply the Develop part of Lightroom.
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Had the same problem, with an even larger dataset. Picasa on the other hand had no problem with it. But huge albums are a problem for many programs, unfortunateley.
I had dozens of photographer friends try importing their multi TB photo libraries into different Linux systems using all kinds of photo management software. They all choke. Shotwell is the most stable but even it will crash every few few weeks and that would periodically require reimporting all the photos again...
My library is only 50k raw files, and Lightroom is not exaxtly fast either. Browsing the library, scrolling, etc. is sluggish. On a powerful workstation, 24 threads, 128gb ram, etc
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Conversely the a singular anecdote also doesn't mean it doesn't work either. I strongly suspect that when you have a largish body of people are using something without issue and one person is constantly experiencing problems there might be a reason why. - Maybe you are constantly trying it on the same distro that constantly has problems with its build for some reason or other. Consistent bad experience for the smalle…
It is not unusual. Contrary to what people in Linux world believe its desktop software that deals with visual image and video processing is atrocious. That's why no one ( rhetorical no one ) uses it rather than Windows or Macs for their photo libraries. It is definitely the case for the software that tries to manipulate RAW files from modern cameras. What we actually have is a tiny number of users who use Linux as a…
> That's why no one ( rhetorical no one ) uses it rather than Windows or Macs for their photo libraries.
lol, I've actually use Digikam on windows and mac because of how well it works for me
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I don't really have problems with multi monitor and KDE.
I do - every time I unlock my screen, Plasma crashes, and my windows get randomly distributed around my virtual desktops. Oddly enough, if I only have one monitor enabled, it doesn't happen. And yes, I've nuked my preferences several times.
Are you using Wayland? If so, try X11.
Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
#87The macOS version is distributed as a .pkg and isn't signed or notarized. That's a no-go for me. Any reason why they don't just ship a .app in a disk image?
Most likely because nobody on the development team has the time to keep up with Apple's treadmill of ever changing Gatekeeper requirements. If you're knowledgeable about such matters, see it as your chance to contribute.
Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
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I would say they're complementary. Digikam is more of an all-around organizer and has lots of import/export stuff, tagging, and now good face recognition too apparently (the old one was based on classic Haar cascades). Darktable is for selecting a series of shots, going through them, developing the ones you want to keep.
Would you say I replaces iPhoto/Photos on Mac?
I'm not sure how seamless the experience is on macOS, but I'm happily using digiKam on Linux as an iPhoto/Photos replacement.
It's nowhere near as polished as Photos, but it's capable, open source, and multi-platform. I hope to maintain my photo library for decades, so avoiding proprietary software / service lock-in was my most important consideration. This decision was reinforced earlier this year when we had to do some surgery on my spouse's meticulously curated Photos library: it's damned near impossible to completely preserve metadata when moving items between Photos libraries, and it is impossible to remove RAW files from stacked RAW+JPEG pairs in the Photos library. If I ever ran into those issues in digiKam (which I haven't), I'm confident that my SQL abilities would be sufficient to work around them.
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According to Wikipedia it is called prosopagnosia [1]. I have never been formally diagnosed, but I cannot even recognize the faces of my own family members to save my life. Having software that sorts faces will be great. Given that I only use open source software, I am quite excited for this new release. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
> I have never been formally diagnosed, but I cannot even recognize the faces of my own family members to save my life. And I thought I had this disease. I think root of my issue most likely is that my brain is assuming that most people I see on the street or during parties I will never see again so it immediately forgets faces and names and only starts remembering when I encounter them few times. I would imagine the…
But not recognizing faces of people you see at parties is different from not recognizing your own family. Do you have the latter too?