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<p>Today while doing a lot of face-tagging I've encountered several
problematic user stories in digiKam which I thought I would share
in the hope that improvements can be made.</p>
<p>1) I was looking at unconfirmed faces for the people in one of my
albums, and I accidentally clicked the minus ("reject this
suggestion") instead of the checkmark ("accept this suggestion")
for one of them. The photo immediately disappeared from the
thumbnails of unconfirmed photos, as it should. But here's the
thing... I can't find any way to undo this. I have no idea where
the photo went or how to find it.</p>
<p>When I do something to a photo by accident which <i>modifies</i>
the photo, then as a workaround I can run a "find" on my pictures
directory to look for recently modified photos and then search for
the file name of the photo I want to get it back. But rejecting a
face suggestion doesn't modify the photo, it just modifies the
database, so I can't use that workaround. Basically that face is
now in limbo: I know who it is, but I don't know how to find the
photo in digiKam so I can tag it. I have thousands of unconfirmed
and unknown faces, so it's not a simple matter.<br>
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<p>2) Again reviewing suggested people, I double-click on a photo to
switch to preview mode to get a closer look to figure out whether
it is indeed the suggested person. It turns out it's not, but
there are several people in the photo and I know who they are, so
I start tagging them. Part-way through that I get to the person
who was suggested, and I tag them with the correct person's name
(not the suggestion), and the photo immediately disappears. I'm
going to argue that once I've opened a photo in preview mode it
shouldn't disappear even when it's no longer in the collection I
opened it from. It shouldn't go away until you switch back to
thumbnail mode.<br>
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<p>3) I encountered a photo with a suggested face which was rotated
incorrectly. The suggestion was correct. I opened the photo in
preview mode and rotated it, but then the face regions weren't
right so I told it to clear the faces so I could rescan for and
rerecognize faces. As above, the photo immediately disappeared.
Solution is same as above: a photo shouldn't disappear in preview
mode just because it's no longer in the collection it was opened
from.</p>
<p>4) digiKam suggests a face tag for someone which is incorrect,
and in fact the suggested person is a different person in the same
photo. With that photo thumbnail selected, if you click the minus
to reject the suggestion, the photo moves from where it was in the
suggested section to the confirmed section for the same person,
and your scrolling jumps with it. I don't think you should scroll
like that; I think either the photo should be unselected when it
moves, or the selection should move to the next photo in the
suggested photos section.</p>
jik<br>
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