Hi, You can browse in e.g. Geeqie, right click, and open (or edit?) in darktable. That's possible because you can supply the image as a command-line argument. That well import it automatically, and you can remove images from the DB every now and then.
Kofa On 8 Sep 2016 14:19, "John Jakees" <[email protected]> wrote: Hi all, New here, but user for a year now. I've experience with Lightroom, AftershotPro, RawStudio etc etc. Darktable is working fine, except one issue: why is working with collections obligatory and can't you just simple browse a disk? AfterShotPro has this and i think it has some advances. Some arguments * My collection digital pictures goes back to 2003. I've seen many different programs (did i mention i worked with Rawshooter and Bibble Labs?) More than 13 human years is 130 in software years ;-) Managing and storage should always be done considering a lifetime. I preffer a disk-based structure instead of something in a program. Can i find back pictures in 10, 20 or 30 years? Is Darktable still active then? * Is Darktable in essence a library tool or a developer? I think the second. The choice of managing should be the users one. * Browsing for quick developing a picture is much more faster than importing first. And who doesn't do that? Just developing a picture quick .. imagine your mother in law is standing besides you and you have first to import a picture of her grandchildren into a catalog. Speed matters :-) * Different users think different. Everyone has an own way to get along with information. * And: i'm not saying there should be no catalog, but alongside. ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected] ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
