[Digikam-devel] Re: Status of face detection

[Gilles Caulier]

2010/10/29 Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de>:
>
>> Marcel,
>>
>> Why Face detection progress dialog is modal ? We cannot continue to
>> work on the rest of digiKam during face processing ?
>
> No, no problem to continue working. Fixed in SVN. It was not modal
> (setModal(false) and dialog->show()), but the main widget was passed as parent
> of the dialog. Now it's a separate window, like fingerprint generator.
>
>> Same problem for me. I just tried to scan all faces. It lock to a mpeg
>> video file. No crash...
>
> Is this also one of the last files of an album, and the UI is still
> responsive, even though the scan does not progress?

No, the first item from an album.

>
> I cannot reproduce this problem, but it would be typical to occur at the end
> of an album. Probably, the FacePipeline does not emit finished() when it
> should. See FacePipeline::FacePipelinePriv::checkFinished(), around line 688.
> Can you find out if either packagesOnTheRoad or infosForFiltering is not 0
> when locking?

i'm back at home now and collection is not the same here. I will
recompile GoSC branch and try if it's reproducible on my laptop.

Gilles