The simple point is - DT can be catastrophic in certain cases.
As the original question pointed - if the user intends to copy / paste metadata information and instead copy / paste image stack - even by accident - the results can be drastic and very unpleasant.
If you have 1000-2000 images - all corrected and then just editing the metadata - 2 cases can happen - wrongly override the history stack (and never notice) then all corrections are wrong - so you can end up printing wrong pictures. Or wrongly override history stack and notice it - then invest hours or days to figure out what image should be where on the correction state. Either case is very much not acceptable.
FYI - I do edit metadata last as considerable amount of images are discarded and the metadata do vary from image to image with some common parts in it.
So - while DT takes extreme care to preserve the RAW file - it leaves the .XML side cart very vulnerable to a user mistake. In my opinion it would be very nice to have some change of behavior to be safer.
Regards, B On 2017-03-31 10:10 AM, Colin Adams wrote:
On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 at 17:58 Pascal Obry <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:Colin, > In darkroom, using the film-strip to select the photo to be edited. > If I press a Function key to set the colour label, or a numeric to > set the star rating, the setting is made on the photo which has the > mouse pointer over it in the film strip. Not the selected photo (i.e. > the one visible in the darkroom). > This seems wrong to me, and causes me problems. I've NEVER want to > set the rating for a photo that is not visible in the darkroom. This looks like a feature to me and I use it this way to mark multiple photos very close with the same rating and/or color. Whereas to me it's a bug.A simple solution to make everyone happy is to make it a configurable option.> Here's another. In the lighttable, the Image information in the left- > hand pane shows the information for the photo under the pointer. Not > the selected photo. In this case, I can't see any other behaviour > makes sense, as there maybe multiple selections. Again, this is a feature. Quite handy. I understand that you may not like it but it is quite convenient toI said I can't see that any other behaviour makes sense, so I don't know why you think I don't like it. (I do get confused by it sometimes).look for information on some picture quite fast without having to select them. The problem with the UI and behavior is that we have all a different way to see things. So configuration options can tackle that.____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
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