Its all or nothing, you can select which ones you want. Adjust the thumbnail size to your liking, and then run dark tables generated cache.
-m On January 3, 2022 11:29:38 AM PST, Christian Birzer <christ...@christianbirzer.de> wrote: >Hello, > >you are not alone with this request. I also would like to have a easy >way to generate the previews. I'd like to select the images I want to >generate and then hit a button or menu entry to generate the full size >preview for these. Then you could ctrl-a in your last import, start >generation, drink a coffee and begin sorting your pictures. > >Doing this with an external tool works, but is not so convenient, of >course. And I don't know how to select the images that shall be >recalculated. It's not required to regenerate all thumbnails, just the >last import to work faster with them. > > >-- >Christian Birzer >christ...@christianbirzer.de >www.ChristianBirzer.de >www.500px.com/ChristianBirzer >www.flickr.com/ChristianBirzer >www.facebook.com/Birzer.Christian >www.instagram.com/birzer.christian > >Am 03.01.2022 um 18:30 schrieb Jørn Villesen Christensen: >> Hi there, >> >> First off: Thank you for a great application. I enjoy using darktable >> very much, and I feel that (with the latest 3.8) it got both better >> and faster on my machine. Thank you! :-) >> >> I have a feature request, though. If it is already implemented, then >> maybe I need a pointer to a place in the documentation :-D But, the >> request is: The ability (within lighttable mode) to enable preload / >> pre-caching of full previews. >> >> To put some more words on my work situation: When I am culling images >> in lighttable mode, I go to full preview mode (shortcut 'w' or 'f') >> and flick through the images. Whenever darktable encounters a "new" >> image, it takes a second to render a full screen preview (or more if I >> have already done some edits). It then caches it so the next time >> (within same session) I show that image, it is shown immediately. This >> delay, however, is a bit annoying when I flick through the images for >> comparison. I therefor often find myself scrolling fast 10 to 20 >> images ahead, triggering a preview-generation, for then to go back to >> "start" and actually viewing the images. >> >> I would love it, if i did not have to do the little scroll back and >> forth dance, but that darktable would just start generating previews >> whenever I went into full preview mode. >> >> I know there are some open questions (How many previews to generate? >> What happens if the cached images hits the cache limit? What then when >> you zoom in on a photo?) which I would be happy to discuss, but first >> step would be to check in whether a) I am the only one with this >> request? b) Is this already implemented (and I just haven't found the >> feature)? >> >> BR >> Jørn >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> >> darktable developer mailing list >> to unsubscribe send a mail to >> darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org >> > >___________________________________________________________________________ >darktable developer mailing list >to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
