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Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by StavrosK »

berkut wrote: post #40
brnt wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm running three screens and don't have the same problem. I did a clean format before installing KDE, though, just because that computer had been upgraded from one version to another for around ten years.

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by StavrosK »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #19
gsich wrote: post #13

Maybe they have now what Picasa did 7 years ago.

This comment seems mean, perhaps. But, Picasa's facial recognition was far better than Digikam's and I marveled at how Picasa could do so quickly, so long ago, what Digikam has failed to do (until now?). I've been a Digikam user for a long time now, it's really useful for me, but the whole face-tagging system has been really poor for a long time IMO (eg all faces recognised in one image as same person; all tags recog…

I think that comment is more "Picasa was amazing" than "Digikam is bad", and it's right, Picasa was amazing. Hopefully Digikam will reach those levels soon.

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by notyourday »

tuxcall wrote: post #84
notyourday wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

But does it crash, lost some library data and require re-importing your photo library?

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by talhcknews »

berkut wrote: post #40
brnt wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I have the same problem consistently on PopOS which uses GNOME just across two monitors. As a bonus, in the redistribution process, windows are randomly resized to a lot larger sizes. I suspect this is related to me leveraging the experimental scaling features in GNOME which is hard to avoid using 27inch 4K monitors. Really wish the window management would be more polished but I have no skill in that domain to make it better.

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by blendergeek »

agumonkey wrote: post #75
blendergeek wrote: post #71

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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

yeah I knew there was a proper term I just couldn't bother digging again. Do you think a software aiding you into recognizing would help your life ? or are you fine with that condition now ?

I have learned to live with it. Basically whenever I meet someone I say, "hey, I can't recognize faces". I still recognize people but only by clothing, hair, facial hair or black thereof, etc. If someone gets a haircut, it completely throws me off.

I mainly see software helping me organize my photos. I have always dreamed of a Google Glass like thing that would instantly tell me who everyone is, but I think everybody would find it creepy. Of course currently people find it weird that it takes me >15 seconds to recognize a friend when it seems to take everybody barely 2 seconds.

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by techntoke »

stalker314 wrote: post #44
techntoke wrote: post #11

I'm currently using Google Photos for facial recognition, however since they broke their Google Drive integration I'd like to move away from it. For now I am using a combination of Syncthing, the Google Photos interface and rclone. Is there an API or potential to use this in headless for integration in other apps such as web or Android? What about the automated cards and animations that Google Photos creates? Is ther…

Nextcloud is self-hosted solution and there is plugin for it that allows you to recognize and cluster faces (to persons) using DLib: https://github.com/matiasdelellis/facerecognition . This might be close to what you need (while Nextcloud is huge software on its own, it is not best photo management app)

Thanks.

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by throw0101a »

black_puppydog wrote: post #6
virtualmic wrote: post #5

Sorry for somewhat unrelated query: is Digikam a replacement for Darktable? If not what's a good workflow between the two? I am a hobbyist photo taker and have only recently started using Darktable and really enjoy using it. However, it isn't a very efficient photo manager in my opinion (I may very well be missing something).

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.

> lots of import/export stuff, tagging

So perhaps closer to Photo Mechanic?

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by BugWatch »

Sadly, even at version 7.0, it (Digikam) still doesn't support virtual albums/collections, and it insists on direct album-file_system_directory correlation. Unfortunently, it is useless to me as an image/photo organizer. (I don't really see tags as a substitute).

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by tobtoh »

I wish there was photo management software which catered to non-enterprise multi-user environments.

ie families, or small organizations where the photos (and database) would reside on a computer, but other users on their computers could access it via the local network.

At the moment, this middle ground doesn't seem to exist. It's either single-user only photo management software or full-blown multi-user digital asset management software with enterprise-level pricing.

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Post by notyourday »

mceachen wrote: post #58
notyourday wrote: post #22

Every year for at least last 5 years I have been trying Digikam. Every year like 99.9% of the reasonably complicated GUI-based single process multi-functional software written on Linux it would blow up while working with marginally large sets of files (~ 50k photos, roughly evenly split between 24 megapixel NEF files and random resolution jpegs ) It is just sad to see that the imaging/image processing/image organizin…

You just described the architecture of PhotoStructure: https://photostructure.com/server/photostructure-for-servers... (Not a dozen components, though; just four. A main/watchdog service, a web service, a volume watchdog and directory scanner service, and a cluster of sync-file jobs). Related: it was a total pita to handle real-time debugging until I made my own `tail -f` that sorted by timestamp and automatically up…

Thanks, I'm going to play with it as it is the closest thing to what I think can function well even though I did not mean using a web browser as an interface.
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