I wouldn't want to comment on other's experience. Here is what I was
looking for and so far I have not found a way to do in darktable. Any
tips/hints welcome.
I was looking for portrait images. I could not find a way to do it in
UI. Darktable is aware of image orientation, but it's not accessible in
UI as far as I know. Besides it uses different values than standard exif
values, but comments in the code make it clear why it was done that way
and makes sense.
If I had access to query editor, I could have easily have a query and
don't have to wait for a feature that may or may not be implemented.
I'm trying to understand resistance to SQL query - as I see it, it's a
view after all, it has list of images and should not care how it got the
list of images. As far as i can see current view is basically result of
SQL, either based on film role or tags or whatever. If you provide
opportunity people will use it in imaginative way, after all this tool
is used by many imaginative artists. Why constrain within the confounds
of UI?
I agree that SQL is not for everyone, but that does not mean other
developers can provide SQL that can do allow people to filter the way
they want or enhance functionality of already excellent tool. Not
everyone is able to contribute with C/C++ tools, but following linux
philosophy, any tool should be easily extendible by others without
significant changes in the original tool.
Thanks,
Niranjan
On 1/18/21 11:39 AM, KOVÁCS István wrote:
All this SQL magic makes sense only if the database actually stores
those fields. Are you sure they're there? Wouldn't it be better to ask
for new fields to be added, and then handled through the UI filter
builder? What feature are you missing from the query builder itself?
Because if none, then there's no need for direct SQL filtering. The
few power users who want to have advanced statistics or such from
their database can use the command-line SQLite client and run whatever
query they want.
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