On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 23:59:23 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > Missed the page up/down (and that is in the manual!). > That helps some. Concern with 20K images is not the database, it is the > scrolling. > > But this could be a factor of my thinking from LightRoom. I am used to > effectively a single filmroll. > From what it looks like, dt sort of expects the users to have many > filmrolls; but this may be incorrect. I am still trying to determine how I > will manage my workflow within lighttable. import, cull, meta-data tagging, > developing, searching, exporting.
I'd be perfectly happy to get rid of the database and use sidecar files exclusively at least as an option. I prefer a different tool for managing my image collection (KPhotoAlbum) and just use dt for image processing. Invoking dt on a collection of files living in different directories is a pain. If, for exmaple, I run "darktable */img_*94.cr2" 101canon/img_0194.cr2 102canon/img_0294.cr2 104canon/img_0494.cr2 105canon/img_0594.cr2 106canon/img_0694.cr2 107canon/img_0794.cr2 108canon/img_0894.cr2 ... my light table shows only one photo at a time, but with lots of different film rolls. The "film roll" metaphor isn't how I work -- I store the images on disk in camera layout and use KPhotoAlbum organization functionality to manage it all). So collecting a bunch of images in KPhotoAlbum and having that invoke darktable on the result isn't very useful (RawTherapee is even worse; it shows _only_ the first image or directory on the command line). > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Patrick Shanahan > Sent: Sunday, August 5, 2018 11:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [darktable-user] lighttable navigation > > * Timothy Spear <[email protected]> [08-05-18 23:05]: >> I use a Trackball >> (https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/trackman-marble) >> no mouse wheel for me. Besides using arrows for navigation, any >> suggested ways to scroll through and find images? >> While still learning dt, it is not that bad I only have a few hundred >> images. But when I convert from LightRoom, I will have about twenty >> thousand images. This is a bit much to use arrows for navigation. >> >> Note: Windows 10 platform. > > never on win 10, but <page-up> and <page-down> work > > and 20k is not a problem, I am over 95k and have seen posts saying over > 100k. > > gud luk, -- Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
