[Digikam-devel] [Bug 265025] New: usability issues with tagging unknown faces

[Adam Spiers]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265025

           Summary: usability issues with tagging unknown faces
           Product: digikam
           Version: 2.0.0
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Face Detection
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: kde-bugs at adamspiers.org


Version:           2.0.0 (using KDE 4.5.5) 
OS:                Linux

The new face tagging code is tantalisingly close to being awesome!  However I
am experiencing several glitches and UI issues when tagging unknown faces:

(1) If there is more than one unknown face on a photo, if I enter one
and then hit the Enter key, sometimes (but not always) it
automatically advances to the next photo even before I have tagged the
other unknown faces in that photo.

(2) There seems to be no way of starting to type without first having
to click the mouse on the 'Who is this?' text.  Requiring the use of
the mouse for every single photo makes the whole process MUCH slower -
this could be the difference between 30 minutes and 2 hours if you
have a lot of photos!  Please make this possible via the keyboard.

(3) After focusing on the 'Who is this?' text and typing a substring
of the person's name, the dropdown which appears has several problems:

  (a) It's not wide enough so I only see 'Create New Tag "...'

  (b) It actually displays 'Create New Tag "...' twice - once at the
      top and once at the bottom, and due to the truncation it's not
      clear if there is a good reason for having both.

  (c) Even if there is a good reason for having both, they should
      always appear at the bottom, so that hitting Enter defaults to
      applying the matching tag rather than creating a new one, since
      it's far more common that you will want to do the former than
      the latter.

  (d) Clicking on an item in the dropdown merely makes the dropdown
      vanish rather than selecting it.

Hope this usability feedback is useful.  Thanks for listening!

(See also bug 262574 for a related face tagging UI issue.)

Reproducible: Always

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