[digiKam-users] Difference between face tag and normal tag?

[Stefan Müller]

Hoi Maik,

in regard to the option under Settings > Miscellaneous > Show only face 
tags for ass....
I started digikam once option opt-in and once opt-out but don't see a 
difference.
Do you know a reason why?

thank you
stefan




On 09.03.2018 09:20, Stefan Mueller wrote:
> Hoi Maik,
> you mean the option indicated by the mouse cursor in the picture 
> below, right?
>
> I started digikam once option opt-in and once opt-out but don't see a 
> difference
>
>
>
>
>
> 2018-03-09 8:11 GMT+01:00 Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com 
> <mailto:metzpinguin at gmail.com>>:
>
>     The flag face tag allows filtering so that other tags are not
>     displayed. The
>     option is under Settings-> Miscellaneous (restart required). Only
>     facial tags
>     appears in the selection popups while (manual) face tagging.
>
>     Maik
>
>     Am Donnerstag, 8. März 2018, 17:57:48 CET schrieb woenx:
>     > Hi, maybe somebody with more experience can lend me a hand.
>     >
>     > I am a bit confused regarding face tags and regular tags. What's
>     exactly the
>     > difference between them?
>     >
>     > I suppose that face tags are to tag... well... faces. But on the
>     tag list,
>     > they all seem to be intermixed. Is there an easy way to
>     distinguish face
>     > tags from regular tags? What happens if I use a face tag for
>     tagging a
>     > picture without its face rectangle? What happens if I delete or
>     rename a
>     > face tag? Does the picture still conserves its "face rectangle"
>     without a
>     > name? Do the same tag work as a regular tag for some pictures,
>     as a face tag
>     > for others?
>     >
>     > I have a lots of pictures tagged from another software, where
>     faces were
>     > already recognized (and stored as xmp data), and I additionally
>     tagged each
>     > person with a regular tag. Now when Digikam reads these
>     pictures, some of
>     > these tags are fused (if the person and its regular tag have
>     exactly the
>     > same name), and some are displayed separately (if I used some
>     abbreviation
>     > for the person name, for instance). Some appear as subtags of
>     "People" and
>     > others as a first level tag.
>     >
>     > To further complicate the issue, the metadata explorer on the
>     left panel do
>     > not seem to display the face rectangles and their associated
>     names in the
>     > XMP section.
>     >
>     > I am afraid of touching anything in case I lose the faces in my
>     pictures.
>
>
>
>
>

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