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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR-BE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>1/ Version 7.2.0 is indeed much faster.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>2/ Some maintenance tasks take a lot of time, sometimes it is counted in seconds, sometimes in days, but the progress bar only shows a percentage of completion, ... of what? seconds or days?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>3/ It would be very nice to have two buttons: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>- one would allow you to close where you are; leave it at that; cancel the rest.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>- the other one would allow to stop or pause the work temporarily, (to free the resources of the machine in order to do something else,) and then to resume.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>4/ In the maintenance window, concerning the choices of albums/labels, it would be nice to be able to select, in a larger window, by recursively checking or unchecking by two or one click in the concerned box.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Here you go, please make good use of these wishes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best Regards.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De :</span></b><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Digikam-users [mailto:digikam-users-bounces@kde.org] <b>De la part de</b> Thomas D<br><b>Envoyé :</b> mardi 30 mars 2021 12:05<br><b>À :</b> digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source<br><b>Objet :</b> [digiKam-users] Digikam 7.2.0 - initial impressions and feedback<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I have been trying the new DK 7.2.0 release.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Wow. This looks really good!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I have a bit of feedback that I hope you will consider.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>Status on face detection (and other long-running tasks)</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I wanted to try the new face recognition so I am running detection on my collection.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It has now been running for about 3 days.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The only status of the operation is this progress bar in the bottom:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><img width=158 height=29 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01D7256A.E6EAFD40" alt=image.png><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>That is fine as an overview but does not give me much details. Luckily there is an option to expand this to see more details. (the up arrow).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Clicking the up arrow to see more details, I am presented with this:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><img width=542 height=56 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image002.png@01D7256A.E6EAFD40" alt=image.png><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Really just a bigger progress bar. No additional details are given.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>What I would really like to see here are stuff like any or all of the following:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>1: Estimated time left. I know this is likely really hard to estimate in any acurate way. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>2: Number of images already processed and number of images left.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>Resource consumption / prioritization:</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>When didikam is running and doing the face detection my machine is almost unusable. All other applications respond very slowly. Digikam itself is almost completely unresponsive. For example if I just click an album it will be several seconds before DK shows the album. Or when viewing images in an album, when I click the arrow to see the next image, there will be a delay of several seconds before I see the next image.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I understand that face detection is time consuming and I have have allowed DK to utilize multiple CPU cores. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I have a i7 CPU with 6 cores and 32 GB RAM. This is a random snapshot of the CPU utilization:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><img width=542 height=364 id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:image003.png@01D7256A.E6EAFD40" alt=image.png><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>What I would really like to see here is a way set the priority of the background process doing the face detection to a lower priority than "Normal". <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Obviously, I could use Process Explorer to set the priority of Digikam to a low priority and that does indeed work such that other applications respond fast. However, still everything inside DK is extremely slow.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Another thing I would love here is a way to suspend a task temporarily. As mentioned above DK has been running for 3 days now. That is a really long time. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I would like to be able to suspend/resume the face detection.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>As it is, when I quit Digikam and start it again, I *think* that digikam resumes face detection where it left off. But I am not sure about that and I have no real way of knowing it from the UI. Informing the user that it is safe to quit digikam (if it is) would also be a nice improvement. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>When digikam starts up after quitting in an active task it would be nice if digikam suggests to resume it or just resumes it automatically. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I hope you will consider the suggested improvements.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I would love to help implement this stuff but alas, I lack the skills to contribute code in a meaningful way. However, I experience with UI/UX work and would love to contribute what I can here. Please let me know if you are interested in this.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Once again thanks for the fantastic work you do with digikam!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>BR<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thomas<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>