* I. Ivanov <[email protected]> [08-06-19 20:58]: > > On 2019-08-06 05:22, 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.html> > > 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? How many photos would > > you edit at a time? And how would you select these (manually or via > > collections)? Do you have any other suggestions? > > > I usually use description, tags, creator, rights. Description tends to get > longer for me... I tend to name the pictures after the date. > (YYYYMMDD-MMSS). Some times I am struggling with pulling this from EXIF - > specifically when I have to offset the date +- 1h or more because of > incorrect clock. Not sure if it is possible but if I change the date I would > like it to carry forward. I understand modifying RAW is not a good idea and > agree with it. But if the info is recorded in the XMP and the user can elect > to read the XMP it would be nice.
have you looked in an xmp file for the date? > I miss having keyboard navigation in the tag area - for example left arrow > to collapse branch, right to expand... > > I regularly tag and include metadata for 500 - 900 images at a time. > Currently working on 10k so I may end up with 2000 or more keepers (that > will have to be tagged) > > Currently - I don't think there is an easy way to copy / paste all metadata > or few fields from one image to another (or many others). If the fields > increase - it would be nice to have such. > > I've had cases when by mistake I overwritten tags / metadata on considerable > number of images. Having undo / redo feature would be very good.... actually > very very very good. iianm, an "undo" function currently exists. > Not sure if I am understanding correctly but new interface - do you mean a > completely separate are from lightable? Or still part of lightable? There > are other items that can be considered - like better visual identification > what is being tagged / edited but this can also crowd too much lighttable... > > > Thanks, > > Sam > > > > ________ > > Thank you, > > B > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected] -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
