Re: DK 8.7 face tagging: confirm will trigger a new face scan?

This is a new setting in 8.7. I came across it about a month ago. See the snippet from a conversation about it in this group. The documentation is now up-to-date, but it can take a veteran user by surprise.

Carol


Hi all,

The option is now documented in the online handbook:
https://invent.kde.org/documentation/digikam-doc/-/commit/019819089de0c471f2c2d0031f71c2f79bc2de0f

Best regards

Gilles Caulier

Le sam. 12 juil. 2025 à 23:33, Carol C. Kankelborg
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
> 
> Charlie,
>   Thank you for that tip. I guess the setting must be turned on in the new update. I turned off enabling background face recognition scan and things are back to behaving as I expect them to be.
> 
> Carol
> 
> On Jul 12, 2025, at 14:24, Charlie Gorichanaz <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> Hi Carol,
> 
> It sounds like an issue I ran into as well. I had to uncheck Misc > Behavior > Enable background face recognition scan. The tool tip says "Set this option to automatically start a new background face recognition scan when a new face is tagged."  I don't see that item documented at https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/miscs_settings.html#scan-operations but it does appear in that screenshot.
> 
> —
> Charlie Gorichanaz
> 






> On Aug 16, 2025, at 16:23, Steven Robbins <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a long-time DK user.  I recently upgraded from 8.6 to 8.7 (my system runs 
> debian linux) and there seems to be some behaviour change I didn't expect.  I 
> wonder if I've got some setting messed up?  
> 
> I was using face detect/recognition extensively with DK 8.6.  I didn't modify 
> any setting when I began using DK 8.7.  Today I opened the "Unconfirmed" set of 
> people tags.  I confirmed a few faces on-by-one.  Then I selected four faces by 
> holding shift and left mouse click a range.  When I confirmed those four, a new 
> "Face Scanning" run kicked off.
> 
> Actually, it might be a timing thing rather than the number of confirmed faces.  
> Just now, I did a single one, then waited; about 10 seconds later face 
> scanning kicked off again.
> 
> Q1: is this new behaviour?  Is it related to some setting I might have 
> inadvertently set?  Or a holdover from 8.6->8.7 update?
> 
> Q2: the scan takes a minute or two at present.  Is it safe to continue 
> confirming faces while it runs?  
> 
> Thanks,
> -Steve