Hello,
My name is Colin and I've just installed Darktable 1.1.3 today (Fedora 18
64-bit). I'm going through the online user manual, and I'm finding what
appears to be a few discrepancies. I'm writing this email as I go through
it.
Chapter 2
=======
In section 1.1 I read: "Also when the mouse hovers over an image frame the
specific image metadata is shown in the metadata panel". Looking at the
screen, there is nothing that says metadata panel. It doesn't take me long
to find metadata editor in the right-hand pane and image information in the
left-hand pane. I guess it is the latter that is referred to (or maybe
both). It would be nicer to use the user-visible labels in the manual.
In the same section I read "In order to locate where you are in your
collection, you have read-only sliders at the extreme border of the window:
left/right for your vertical position in the collection, top/bottom (when
in zoomable lighttable mode, see below) for your zoom level.". I'm finding
this confusing. At the bottom of the screen, just right of the mode
selector, there is a slider that sets the zoom level (when in file manager
mode, at least, I'm not sure what it is doing in zoomable lighttable mode),
but that isn't read-only, so I guess it isn't referring to that.I can't see
anything that looks like a read-only slider.
In the same section it details the accelerator keys. "z" does nothing for
me, and it certainly doesn't go into full screen (I tried "Z" too - no joy).
In section 1.3, I cannot get ungroup (or shift-gtrl-g) to do anything
(tested because I can still collapse/expand the group). Ah. I've just found
that ungroup only works on the selected image(s), not on the group as a
whole. That should probably have been obvious to me, but wasn't. Might I
suggest changing "Likewise you can remove images from a group by clicking
button "ungroup" or typing *shift-ctrl-g*. " to "Likewise you can remove *
selected* images from a group by clicking button "ungroup" or typing *
shift-ctrl-g*. "?
"Images which are members of a group are labelled with a symbol "G" in
their thumbnails."
I cannot see this "G" (I did see it on one occaision - but I can't
reproduce).
Section 2.2. This does not explain what is necessary for it to work. When I
tried, I got a message: "this image has not been indexed yet".
Section 2.3. It doesn't explain much, but it's probably satisfactory. I
tried to use date, but it's actually datetime (to the nearest second,
apparently). It would be nice if it were labelled datetime, and there were
a separate rule for date (ignoring the time part).
Section 2.6. It is clear from the illustration that it is the Image
information panel that it is talking about (which answers my earlier
question). I suggest the section title should be: "Image information
(metadata)" (or else rename the panel to metadata) for consistency.
Section 2.10. "Styles are created in darkroom mode thanks to a button
placed below the history stack. " It's not clear to me where/what this
button is. (now I know - it is detailed in section 3.3 - a hyperlink would
be nice)
Chapter 3
=======
Section 3.1 Navigation. It appears by now that the manual must be referring
to an earlier version of Darktable, as the illustration shows a
"navigation" pull-down which is not present in 1.1.3. (the navigation image
is not labelled).
Section 3.3 - I don't know what it is referring to by "advanced presets".
Chapter 4
=======
Section 4.5. Keyboard accelerator 'o' doesn't work.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Everyone hates slow websites. So do we.
Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics
Download AppDynamics Lite for free today:
http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb
_______________________________________________
Darktable-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
