On 2021-10-06 11:58, Lorenzo Fontanella wrote:
What do you think.
Please, let's not.
I'm not advocate of the 1960s model of 'one process' that was DOS, CICS, CP/M.
I run Linux, perhaps you run Windows or MacOS. Those are all multi-tasking,
multiprocessing operating systems. You can switch context.
Right now I'm running ... in separate windows ....
- this email thread
- a DVD movie (suspended in shoot-out)
- a terminal window
- 14 chromium windows
- file browser, Dolphin
- darktable
So, the terminal allows me to run various searches, as does Dolphin, the graphical
browser.
Dolphin can renderer images and the embedded GIFs in raw images
I find what I want and click on it and (because that's the way I've set up Dolphin
to handle raw images) it gets imported into darktable and ...
Well whoopee!
If it were a text file clicking would bring up the text editor; if it is a .doc
file, clicking will being up the word processor. It's just how things are set up.
It's just how things are set up.
On my machine. Why not yours?
No need to bloat out Darktable to do what Dolphin (or any other graphical browser)
does. Each thing is doing one thing.
Of course I've not mentioned that I use other Linux tool for generating labels and
label effects, searching metadata, sorting and categorizing and more.
The Linux effect, the old UNIX principle, is to have a variety of (comparatively
light-weight) tools each doing one thing well, and a shell to manipulate and tie
them togehter. you may not think Darktable light-weight, but it is. If it was
also a browser, file manager etc etc etc then it would not be lightweight.
IBM showed this with CICS. they bloated it so much that they had to redesign the
hardware to have an address space extension on machines to run it.
You already have a browser.
Actually, on Linux, I have a choice of a number of them :-)
Personally, I'd look to thinning down Darktable not bloating it.
/a
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