Single colors are already sorted, I am assuming that colors probably have a numerical value for that sort ... if multiple colors were simply treated as a binary string then the problem would be solved.
David On 03/31/2018 10:50 AM, Remco Viëtor wrote: > On samedi 31 mars 2018 18:30:24 CEST David Vincent-Jones wrote: >> I use color labels to signal parts of my working process. For instance >> monochrome/color versions, ready-to-print or a specific series. When >> there is a single color label used the system works well and groups the >> images nicely but when 2 labels are attached then no sub-grouping occurs. >> >> I believe it would be helpful if the color labels grouped images by the >> 'sum' of all the colors applied, as in a binary fashion. I would think >> that it would be fairly easy to modify the current sort this way. >> >> Are there others who feel this might be useful? >> >> David >> ____________________________________________________________________________ >> darktable user mailing list >> to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected] > > How do you define a sum of colours? I suppose you're not talking about adding > the rgb values :^) > > More seriously, I think you have a situation here where the best choice > differs > between users, as there's no definition of what a colour label means. You > seem > to use them as on/off switches for B/W vs color, or to indicate ready to > print, > but then you *also* use some colours to indicate group membership. > > And in that case, there is no way to define a "correct" sorting or grouping, > as > colours are in principle not ordered. > > Remco > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected] > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
