digKam, KDE's image organiser for amateur and pro photographers, releases version 8.5.0. This version of digiKam improves the Face Management system, adds colored labels to identify important items, increases its list of supported languages to 61, and fixes over 160 bugs.

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[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does it support importing photos directly from camera on Windows?

[–] charles@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, it's one of the main use cases.

"You can use digiKam’s import capabilities to easily transfer photos, raw files, and videos directly from your camera and external storage devices (SD cards, USB disks, etc.). The application allows you to configure import settings and rules that process and organize imported items on-the-fly."

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That's only on Linux via the gphoto2 library. Looks like the bugs for Windows are still open.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388137

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398166

On Windows you can currently only import from a camera that implements USB mass storage protocol (meaning pretty much no mainstream Android phones which only have MTP and PTP so there isn't a mounted drive letter path).

[–] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

As someone who needs a photo viewer that has some basic editing tools, is digiKam a good tool? I've tried it in the past to mixed results... The UI and UX leaves a lot to be desired, but I do like the fact that it has local face recognition and other interesting features.

Any suggestions for how this could be a part of my use-case?