Questions and Feature requests

[N Kar]

Dear Developers,
Please see below.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM N Kar <nandinikar1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am afraid the message below in lost in automated protocol.
>
> 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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