Hi Laurent,
please be more clear : which thumbnails do you mean ? The thumbnails
possibly optionally shown in the file manager window which appears if
you click on import ? Or the thumbnails shown in lighttable mode of
darktable ?
I suspect you mean the file manager window, because in your initial mail
(point 2) you mention a filelist mode. To my knowledge darktable does
not offer such a mode, but filemanagers do.
In file manger window the file manager (whichever you use on your
system) handles the thumbnails (not dt). The thumbnails in lighttable
view are handled by darktable and saved in ~/.cache/darktable (linux
path, for windows I don't know the path). There is a comand line tool
called darktable-generate-cache to generate/update thumbnails in the
background when your computer is idle (see documentation).
Peter
Am 05.01.21 um 16:34 schrieb Laurent Zimmermann:
Hi Peter,
I did not try dt 3.4 because it is not yet available in the
repositories of my distro.
This is my hardware:
- CompactFlash SanDisk Extreme 60 MB/s
- Lexar USB 3.0 card reader
- StarTech USB 3.0 ExpressCard
- Pentium P6000 @ 1.87 GHz dual core
- 8 GB RAM DDR3
- SSD drive
It is an ancient VAIO laptop I have upgraded. Not an i7 processor of course.
I tried to increase (512 MB -> 2048 MB) for the thumbnails cache and
the nimber of threads (1 -> 2) without any noticeable effect on the
thumbnails display in the import dialog. No other setting seemed
appropriate.
The import dialog in darktable needs ~18 s to display the 133
thumbnails although Dolphin needs only 2-3 s. So I guess the hardware
is not the most critical point, dont't you?
Laurent
Le mar. 5 janv. 2021 à 08:52, Peter Harde
<peter.harde.pri...@gmail.com> a écrit :
Hi Laurent,
did you try dt 3.4.0 ? What hardware are you using? Sounds as if your
system is slow... There are several settings in preferences ->
lighttable controlling the creation of thumbnails. Did you try different
settings ?
Peter
Am 04.01.21 um 15:38 schrieb Laurent Zimmermann:
Using darktable 3.2.1 x64 / Q4OS Linux (Debian 10 type).
First of all, thanks to the developpers for their work.
1. I recently imported all the pictures (250+) from my memory card to
my harddrive. I wanted to import them on my hard disk in several
partial imports to get them into several folders having different
names. The problem was that at each partial import I had to wait a
long time until the full content of my memory card was displayed. Is
was a long time because there were many photos and because thumbnails
were displayed.
I believe things could go much faster if a kind of cache could be
used, because viewing the thumbnails was very useful.
2. By the way, I remember I saw once a list of filenames (faster
display) instead of the thumbnails, but I am totally unable to
remember what I did to view the list instead of the thumbnails. I see
no button nor another mean to toggle between filename and thumbnails.
3. In the parameters tab, there is the option "override today's date"
(surcharge la date actuelle). I'd like to know what is it intended for
and how to use it.
Thanks.
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