It comes up as a frequent topic. The thing about the file management aspects is they are a small and relatively trivial subset of a far bigger question: Digital Asset Management.
Currently darktable core has a basic DAM capability. Is it something that can be improved? Yes. Is it something that even some of the core devs might be interested in? I believe this is also yes. However... (there is always a however!) there isn't a clear vision of what the DAM needs: There isn't even an aspirational "user story", so nothing at all in the design document area. My understanding is that the big difficulty in significantly improving this aspect of darktable is actually producing a solid specification and design. All that said, I don't agree this is better handed off to non-darktable tools, because ultimately a photographers toolbox should deal with this critical part of the workflow. Regards, Robert. On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 21:24, August Schwerdfeger <[email protected]> wrote: > The optimal solution, then, would be to allow those who want file-manager > capabilities to get and/or implement them without having to distract the > core developers from the image-editing side. > > I think this would be best done through the Lua API. There are already > many file-manager-type operations fully supported through Lua, and a few > additions/improvements there would be more beneficial than any amount of > file-manager capabilities added in the Darktable core, since it would > enable people who are not so familiar with C or the innermost guts of > Darktable to make more contributions, leaving the core developers free to > tackle the image editing. > > -- > August Schwerdfeger > [email protected] > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 2:29 PM Charlie Goodwin <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Seeing many posts asking for adding more and more file management >> capabilities into Darktable, I'd like to suggest that we do not divert >> attention away from the greatest strength, image editing. I'd rather see >> the devs put more attention into what makes Darktable a must-have, what it >> can do so well with manipulating images. >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________ >> darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to >> [email protected] >> > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
