On Saturday, February 28, 2015 07:36 Hajo Schatz wrote:
> > On 27 Feb, 2015, at 22:19, Christian Mandel <c.man...@gmx.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Am 27.02.2015 13:43, schrieb Gonçalo Marrafa:
> >> Do you guys think DT would benefit from a collage/triptych tool? I think
> >> it
> >> would be rather easy to implement, and extremely useful. We can create
> >> them
> >> in GIMP but with DT we could easily change something in our processing
> >> and
> >> have it automatically updated without having to redo it in GIMP.
> >> 
> >> What are your thoughts on this?
> > 
> > From a user's perspective (read: my perspective) it would be extremely
> > useful. If it could work in combination with the new printing
> > functionality I would save many additional steps in about 70% of my
> > editing purposes.
> 
> Personally, I find anything else than maybe, maybe, an n-up printing
> overkill for DT. To me DT is a tool to develop RAWs, not a full-fledged
> editor like Gimp. A flexible way to create collages would IMHO bloat the
> user interface unnecessarily; I prefer the Unix credo of having one tool
> for one job, piping them together gives flexibility...
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+1

This would be the thin edge of the wedge

dt is already a complex piece of software ... drifting into the land of paint 
programs would not be a direction that would interest me.

David

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