On mardi 6 août 2019 14:22:30 CEST Sam wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking at adding a full metadata interface to darktable, I've already > posted to the developer mailing list > <https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04528.htm > l> and > made a pull request on github > <https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/pull/2819> about this but I'm > looking for some input from users. So if you would use this, what sorts of > metadata fields would you want to edit? I use mainly caption/description, title, and keywords. On rarer occasions author and licensing info would be useful. > How many photos would you edit at a > time? 10-100. Complete sets with author info, smaller sets with licensing, title, caption, tags one by one or small sets > And how would you select these (manually or via collections)? Can be both, see above concerning number of images: author/licensing probably collection, caption/title/keyword manual. > Do you > have any other suggestions? Referring to some remarks in the dev list thread: What I don't like with the current metadata pane: - impossible to see the whole title, let alone caption, in the sidebar. E.g. my descriptions are often "<species> (<trivial name>; <family>) <location> <date>. <remarks>", so >100 chars isn't that rare. I can only see the start of the species name in current dt...
That, btw, is the main reason I do most of the metadata wortk in Digikam (with initial culling and such). That said, I don't really see any good alternative within DT, unless you want to go to multi-line edit controls for descriptions etc., and perhaps a popup for the editing (linked to a hotkey). Not too much of a hassle for simultanuous editing of a set of images, less pleasant with individual images, unlessyou are on a multiscreen setup. But I see those more and more, so perhaps some thinking about adapting dt to that situation could be interesting as well. Remco ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
