* Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> [06-25-20 18:12]: > On 6/25/20 1:55 PM, Pascal Obry wrote: > > Le jeudi 25 juin 2020 à 13:48 -0400, Jason Polak a écrit : > >> Here "Import" really means just open the folder. > > > > No, it really means "import" as the pictures are indeed added as > > references into the database. The "import" as in say Python really > > means the same think, make it available, bring it "there" for being > > workable. > > Think about this from a non-developer perspective. If I'm using a > spreadsheet, and I import a CSV > file, I'm actually making a copy of it, not simply referring to it. There > are ways of creating a > reference, such that the spreadsheet is updated when the reference is, but > they're not called > "import". But even from a developer perspective, if I'm doing database work, > I think of data import > as import by value, not by reference. > > > I would certainly see "open the folder" as far more confusing. > > But that's exactly what it does, if one looks at it from the standpoint of a > file manager (Dolphin, > Finder, what have you).
and dt is *definitely* not a file manager nor does it pretend to be such. -- (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]
