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DigiKam 7.10.0

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This is one of the apps that not only keeps me on a desktop/laptop computer (vs a phone/tablet) but also keeps me on Linux. I've got all my photos stored on a NAS device in my house, and manage backups myself (to external harddrives and to rsync). Digikam is my photo manager. I couldn't be happier and I'm sure I don't use even half of the advanced features. What a great app - easy to discover, straightforward, and very polished in my opinion. Many thanks, open source Digikam team.

> but also keeps me on Linux.

It works just fine on Windows.

Isn't Qt 5.15.8 a commercial only license or are there kde maintained forks?

Qt publishes opensource versions a year after the commercial LTS release due to an agreement with KDE. 5.15.8 is the most recent opensource version available at https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.15/5.15.8/single/. 5.15.9 commercial was released in April 2022 and so a 5.15.9 opensource would be expected April 2023.

It feels like machine learning is replacing a lot of need to manually manage data.

Programs like DigiKam would need to interoperate with machine learning models to stay relevant.

Quite a broad statement, what exactly do you mean with interoperate with machine learning? To be fair it’s hidden a bit, but you can use the face training and recognition. https://docs.digikam.org/en/main_window/people_view.html#peo...

Face detection is the kind of thing I'm talking about, but to me Google Photos is the gold standard right now.

It can automatically figure out that certain groups of photos constitute a particular trip to a particular destination. It can group by objects. All photographs of food. All photos of pets. Etc.

You used to have to meticulously manage photographs yourself, into albums or folders. Carefully manage the metadata and tags. But it feels liberating that you don't need to anymore.

Being able to do this offline would be important, for those who don't want to use the cloud. That is where DigiKam could come in.

Maybe NextCloud/OwnCloud will add these kind features.

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