[digiKam-users] Digikam and Darktable

[digikam-2]

DK 6.4.0 appimage and DT 3.0.2 (Manjaro/KDE)

I use DK as my DAM and I starting to use Darktable.

I select my image in DK > right click > open with > darktable and it
works.

I finish my processing in Darktable, I close Darktable while keeping
Digikam open. I do a "bunch of stuff", find another image > right
click > open with: > darktable. And it hangs on the start of Darktable.

When I look at the process table, I can see that the process
darktable exist. I have to kill it. I have to close Digikam, restart
digikam, then I can send the selected image to darktable.

1. Am I doing something wrong?
2. Is there a better way of communicating between DT and DK?
3. Should I import the images/albums in DK and then again in DT?

Thanks


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[Ronald Orenstein]

I am just beginning to use the face recognition feature, and I have a few problems I hope you can help me with,

If Digikam misidentifies a face, I realize that I can change the identification, click "Remove" to remove the box around the face, or click the upper right hand corner to have the image ignored.  However, what I cannot seem to do is to simply remove the identification itself.  In other words, if Digikam identifies a face as so-and-so, and I know it isn't so-and-so but I don't recall who it actually is, can I simply remove any name and transfer the face to the Unknown tag?  The program seems to be resisting my efforts to do this.

Also, is there a way to do a global find and replace on a name tag, other than simply renaming the tag itself?  The reason I ask is because I was trying a work-around to the previous problem by simply renaming certain faces 'x'.  There seems to be no way, though, for me to change some of the faces tagged 'x' to the proper name without manually deleting the 'x' tag first for each face.

If I do delete a face tag, what happens to the face boxes?  Ideally I would have liked the files to go to the unknown category, but this does not seem to happen.

Also: I have been using Aperture (references), in which I have already identified many faces.  If I write the Aperture metadata to file, Digikam picks up the identification as a tag but not the face box, and the tagged files do not show up when I browse for "people" in Digikam.  Is there a way around this, as it would save a lot of retagging?

Finally, the program seems to crash frequently while I am working on faces.  I gather that version 7 uses a different face algorithm - would I be better off waiting for the mac version before scanning further?

Thanks for helping!

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Hi,

In Setup/Editor/RawImport section, digiKam as a newoptin to select an
external tool as Darktable to preprocess RAW file externally before to
import in editor canvas. This feature was improved with 7.0.0
currenlty in pre-release candidate here :

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le mar. 12 mai 2020 à 22:40, <[hidden email]> a écrit :

>
> DK 6.4.0 appimage and DT 3.0.2 (Manjaro/KDE)
>
> I use DK as my DAM and I starting to use Darktable.
>
> I select my image in DK > right click > open with > darktable and it
> works.
>
> I finish my processing in Darktable, I close Darktable while keeping
> Digikam open. I do a "bunch of stuff", find another image > right
> click > open with: > darktable. And it hangs on the start of Darktable.
>
> When I look at the process table, I can see that the process
> darktable exist. I have to kill it. I have to close Digikam, restart
> digikam, then I can send the selected image to darktable.
>
> 1. Am I doing something wrong?
> 2. Is there a better way of communicating between DT and DK?
> 3. Should I import the images/albums in DK and then again in DT?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> --
> sknahT
>
> vyS