Hi Colin, thanks for your feedback. We are currently revising our manual for the upcoming release of darktable 1.2. We will take your suggestions into account then.
What puzzles me is that key accelerators do not work for you. Ulrich Am 02.03.2013 17:11, schrieb Colin Adams: > Hello, > > My name is Colin and I've just installed Darktable 1.1.3 today (Fedora > 18 64-bit). I'm going through the online user manual, and I'm finding > what appears to be a few discrepancies. I'm writing this email as I go > through it. > > Chapter 2 > ======= > In section 1.1 I read: "Also when the mouse hovers over an image frame > the specific image metadata is shown in the metadata panel". Looking at > the screen, there is nothing that says metadata panel. It doesn't take > me long to find metadata editor in the right-hand pane and image > information in the left-hand pane. I guess it is the latter that is > referred to (or maybe both). It would be nicer to use the user-visible > labels in the manual. > In the same section I read "In order to locate where you are in your > collection, you have read-only sliders at the extreme border of the > window: left/right for your vertical position in the collection, > top/bottom (when in zoomable lighttable mode, see below) for your zoom > level.". I'm finding this confusing. At the bottom of the screen, just > right of the mode selector, there is a slider that sets the zoom level > (when in file manager mode, at least, I'm not sure what it is doing in > zoomable lighttable mode), but that isn't read-only, so I guess it isn't > referring to that.I can't see anything that looks like a read-only slider. > In the same section it details the accelerator keys. "z" does nothing > for me, and it certainly doesn't go into full screen (I tried "Z" too - > no joy). > > In section 1.3, I cannot get ungroup (or shift-gtrl-g) to do anything > (tested because I can still collapse/expand the group). Ah. I've just > found that ungroup only works on the selected image(s), not on the group > as a whole. That should probably have been obvious to me, but wasn't. > Might I suggest changing "Likewise you can remove images from a group by > clicking button "ungroup" or typing /shift-ctrl-g/. " to "Likewise you > can remove *selected* images from a group by clicking button "ungroup" > or typing /shift-ctrl-g/. "? > "Images which are members of a group are labelled with a symbol "G" in > their thumbnails." > I cannot see this "G" (I did see it on one occaision - but I can't > reproduce). > > Section 2.2. This does not explain what is necessary for it to work. > When I tried, I got a message: "this image has not been indexed yet". > > Section 2.3. It doesn't explain much, but it's probably satisfactory. I > tried to use date, but it's actually datetime (to the nearest second, > apparently). It would be nice if it were labelled datetime, and there > were a separate rule for date (ignoring the time part). > > Section 2.6. It is clear from the illustration that it is the Image > information panel that it is talking about (which answers my earlier > question). I suggest the section title should be: "Image information > (metadata)" (or else rename the panel to metadata) for consistency. > > Section 2.10. "Styles are created in darkroom mode thanks to a button > placed below the history stack." It's not clear to me where/what this > button is. (now I know - it is detailed in section 3.3 - a hyperlink > would be nice) > > Chapter 3 > ======= > > Section 3.1 Navigation. It appears by now that the manual must be > referring to an earlier version of Darktable, as the illustration shows > a "navigation" pull-down which is not present in 1.1.3. (the navigation > image is not labelled). > > Section 3.3 - I don't know what it is referring to by "advanced presets". > > Chapter 4 > ======= > > Section 4.5. Keyboard accelerator 'o' doesn't work. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ darktable-devel mailing list darktable-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-devel
