Questions and Feature requests

[Gilles Caulier]

Le jeu. 1 mai 2025 à 15:53, N Kar <nandinikar1 at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> I am afraid the message below in lost in automated protocol.
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> On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM N Kar <nandinikar1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> 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:
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>> 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.

This is due to a wrong translation of strings which are too large than
expected. We set up comments for translators to optimize i18n in
critical sections.


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>> 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.

Yes, you can in digiKam setup dialog, at the right place :

https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/views_settings.html#tree-view-settings

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>> 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.

No, this feature is not yet implemented. I remember a file in bugzilla
about using Exif tags to automatize keywords.

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>> 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.

This is reverse geocoding, already implemented in Geolocation plugin:

https://docs.digikam.org/en/geolocation_editor/geoeditor_reverse.html

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>> 5. Is there any way to tag folders without opening, selecting all pictures inside and then tagging?

Not yet implemented. There is a file in bugzilla about this topic.

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>> 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.

Hum this is a Q for Michael who is the AI specialist in the team.
Typically a new DNN model specialized on animals stuff must be found
and used.

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>> 7. For AI scoring based on aesthetics, what are the criteria? I could be use it successfuly, and use basic criteria instead. Suggestions welcome.

This depends on the DNN model used. It's a large Q as we don't teach
the model, we already use a model from the Internet.

https://docs.digikam.org/en/left_sidebar/tags_view.html#auto-tagging-images

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>> 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.

Thanks for the feedback.

Best regards

Gilles Caulier