v6.0.0-alpha

🚀 v6.0.0 — People, Face Clusters, Groups & Linux Maps Runtime

👥 A major People release with automatic face clustering, persistent People
state, multi-person groups, richer location metadata, and broader Windows/Linux
runtime packaging.

Key Updates

👥 People Face Clusters

• Added the optional People face-scanning pipeline powered by InsightFace
  and ONNXRuntime through the ai-demo extra.
• Detects faces in image assets, writes cropped face thumbnails, builds face
  embeddings, and clusters them into persistent People cards.
• Added background face-scan scheduling alongside the normal asset scan, with
  pending, done, skipped, retry, and failed status tracking in the
  global asset index.
• Rebuilt the People persistence model around a rebuildable runtime snapshot
  plus stable People state so names, covers, ordering, hidden flags, and group
  decisions survive rescans and reclustering.

👨‍👩‍👧 People Groups & Dashboard Workflow

• Added People groups for collecting photos where multiple selected people
  appear together.
• Group cards support shared-photo queries, cover selection, drag ordering,
  pinned state, and safe disbanding without deleting the underlying people or
  photos.
• Added People card actions for naming, merging, hiding/unhiding, cover
  management, and dashboard filtering for hidden people.
• Hardened merge safety so hidden and visible people cannot be merged by
  accident.
• Split the People dashboard into focused board, card, dialog, shared, and
  widget modules for easier testing and future iteration.

🗺️ Location & Info Panel Improvements

• Added an embedded location map to the floating info panel so geotagged assets
  can show map context directly in metadata view.
• Added location assignment plumbing and background tasks for updating selected
  asset coordinates.
• Improved map source handling, OsmAnd search support, and map widget runtime
  behavior.
• Extended Linux maps support with helper-backed OBF rendering and the native
  OsmAnd widget runtime when the required shared libraries are present.

🧩 Albums, Menus & Pinned Items

• Added persistent pinned-item services for albums, people, and groups.
• Expanded sidebar and gallery context-menu plumbing with shared menu styling
  and consistent action handling.
• Improved album dashboard/sidebar behavior, cover actions, rename/delete
  workflows, and album tree model coverage.
• Added project popup guardrails so routine warnings and confirmations use the
  app-themed popup system instead of native QMessageBox surfaces.

⚙️ Scanning, Indexing & Packaging

• Improved the scan pipeline with chunked persistence, scan-merge behavior, and
  global repository tests for move/delete and status preservation scenarios.
• Added People cover caching and thumbnail cache services for faster dashboard
  rendering.
• Updated Nuitka and Debian packaging guidance for bundled insightface,
  onnxruntime, extension/models, Linux maps runtime files, and People-page
  release smoke tests.
• Added troubleshooting guidance for packaged face-scan failures, runtime typing
  compatibility issues, model-cache problems, and Linux XCB/GLX map startup.

🧪 Tests & Reliability

• Added focused coverage for People pipeline clustering, People repositories,
  People service behavior, People dashboard widgets, group workflows, hidden
  state, merge guards, and cover persistence.
• Added tests for info panel maps, map extension download tasks, gallery and
  playback coordinators, album sidebar/model behavior, scan/index sync, and
  Linux map source handling.
• Improved packaged-runtime diagnostics so asset-level face failures are logged
  and retried without deadlocking the full People scan.