The People Sidebar is an important aspect of Face Management in DigiKam. It displays the names of all people in the database, and provides a variety of context menu functionality. Currently, the Face Tags (Names) in the Sidebar are sorted alphabetically (either ascending or descending). This causes inconvenience to the user, particularly when confirming the results of a Facial Recognition.
Here’s how one would have to perform the operation currently :
The user has to search around for the tags that have new results, and the only indicator that a tag has new results is the small new counter, beside each tag.
To solve this I made two changes:
- Tags with New Faces now appear in bold, to enhance their visibility.
- Tags with New Faces get pinned to the top of the list. As the user confirms/rejects the suggestions, the new faces decrease and the tag moves back down to get alphabetically sorted.
Kartik Ramesh 