Questions and Feature requests

[N Kar]

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On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM N Kar <nandinikar1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> As an amatuer photographer, I was looking for an opensource image
> management software to move away from Adobe Bridge, and I am happy that I
> came across DigiKam. I did not use its editing features yet, so my
> comments, questions and wishes are restricted to the photo management
> section in Windows 11 24H2 Pro:
>
> 1. In my laptop display, I find the left and right panels are too wide,
> and customization of the thumbnails in the middle is difficult.
>
> 2. In terms of font size, the default of the main menu on top seems too
> small, and on left and right panel too big. On a 15” laptop display, that
> results in poor visibility of the menu and word truncation in extreme left
> panel. I could not set the three font choices right. Any suggestion will be
> helpful.
>
> 3. I am big fan of multiple overlapping tags per photo. Is there any way
> to get seasons tag automatically from exif date? Of course the software
> needs an input to know which hemisphere the user in.
>
> 4. Will it be possible to implement similar autotagging of location if
> exif contain location data? In addition, a user/map defined identification
> of the location (xxx park, yyy city) can bring additional location tags
> that might be useful to average user who wants to go beyond lat/long.
>
> 5. Is there any way to tag folders without opening, selecting all pictures
> inside and then tagging?
>
> 6. I rarely photograph humans, but can AI features be extended at least
> partially to animal pictures? Eye detection and focus check around eyes for
> scoring, and animal autotag based on similarity could have been great
> features.
>
> 7. For AI scoring based on aesthetics, what are the criteria? I could be
> use it successfuly, and use basic criteria instead. Suggestions welcome.
>
> Again, thank you and the whole team for your development and maintainance
> of such an excellent software, and for deciding it to keep it as opensource
> and free.
>
> Warm regards,
> Kar, N.
>
>
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