This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.digikam.org/news/2018-12-30-6.0.0-beta3_release_announcement/
Oh! THis was so long awaited. Very glad to see the release happen. Digikam Rocks!
Congratulations digiKam team!
I got an error message about updating my database. It opened the first time, then would open subsequent times. Sorry, I forgot the exact language. I ended up rolling back to 5.9
Winows 10
Thank you for the release!
Is digiKam-6.0.0-beta3-20181228T155604 the official beta3 release? Also, it takes me long time to download it. The speed varies between 50 and 200 KB/sec. Is that just me or that is the limitation of the KDE server?
I thought I read 6.0 was supposed to have improved Face detection (speed in scanning and finding faces) etc… One of the reasons I have held on to Picasa for Windows desktop was face detection. Has that improved?
Anyone know if Digicam 6.0 read Picasa’s experimental Face Detection export to XMP?
I tried face detection in digikam 6.0.0 beta3 a couple of days ago and did not notice any improvements.
If you configured Picasa to write the face info into metadata digikam will read it. I did however have problems with portrait oriented pictures years ago when migrated from Picasa / WLPG. The locations of the regions were wrong. At that time there was no solution so I fixed face regions manually.
Also if scanning for faces in digikam please make sure to skip images already scanned (there is a checkbox for that) otherwise you will end up with many images with double face regions on them.
I recognzed the same issue…!
Maybe its cool to have an Filter or searchmode for pictures with double face tags (same name/similar name) in the final version or the next beta?!
Greetings from Japan!
Gerome
Not sure. I tried using exiftool to detect these but it did not really work… I just gave up and re-did them manually.
You can’t constantly ask digikam develops to add new features though. Digikam is almost Frankenstein already. I believe such additions to the functionality should be done via plugins written by contributors.
There are certainlysome limitation in KDE file mirrors. We don’t have any control on this.