[Digikam-devel] [Bug 151956] New: red eye enhance feature no longer works

[R Clarke]

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           Summary: red eye enhance feature no longer works
           Product: showfoto
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: cnrpub verizon net


Version:           0.6.0 (using KDE KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

I've been using showfoto for several revisions now, and really like this application.  My main reason for using it is it is the only linux application I am aware of with an easy red eye fix capability.  In fact, I've recommended it on several occasions when the question of red eye reduction in linux is asked on linux forums.  I just upgraded from Kubuntu 7.04 to kubuntu 7.10, and installed showfoto from the standard repositories.  Now when I go to reduce red eye in showfoto, nothing (noticeable) happens to the red in the eyes.  I see there is a new interface for this function, but aside from adding a great deal of complexity I don't see any benefit.  In previous versions all I had to do is zoom in a bit, select the eye closely, and use the red eye reduction feature using the "aggressive" option.  Now when I select the eye and open the red eye reduction function, no noticeable change happens to the red in the eye.  Just to make sure I didn't have a special photo with especially tricky red eye, I rebooted to my old kubuntu partition and used showfoto 0.5.  This worked like a charm on the red eyes in the photo.  In the new version I'm using the default settings that come up because I don't have a clue as to what I should be doing with the interface.  However, even if this is "user error", this would beg the question of why the program moved from a very simple to use feature, to one which requires a large amount of user input.  Why not keep the simple (and effective) preset options (mild and aggressive), while allowing power users the option to hand tune these settings further?