I mostly use Geeqie to filter my images: quickly preview using the
in-NEF jpg, delete if clearly unusable. Sometimes, after that initial
weeding, I move photos of each person to a separate folder, keep 2 or
3, delete the rest; once that is done for everyone, I move the images
to a single folder. So I shuffle them around quite a bit. For that, I
find Geeqie and file managers like Dolphin faster and easier to use
than tagging in darktable; sometimes I even run a dcraw -e *NEF,
transfer the extracted .thumb.jpg files to my tablet, to the weeding
on the train, then send the names of the remaining files to a file,
and use that to delete all original NEFs (along with any XMPs) whose
corresponding jpg I deleted on the tablet. If I import the images into
darktable before the final filtering/moving, I get skulls. Why import
to darktable even those I will delete? Sometimes I play around with
them to see if those blown highlights can be saved or not. Darktable
even had a bug some time ago when it would delete random files instead
of selected ones (it was mentioned on the mailing lists as well), so
no wonder I did not rely on its file handling features (admittedly, I
don't see that problem nowadays).
So this is my very haphazard 'workflow'. I don't expect darktable or
any other tool to support it, I don't like 'asset management' anyway
(I keep a hierarcy of folders roughly along the lines of
main_topic/year/month/event-with-date and don't care about filenames,
tags and star ratings); but it seems I'm not the only one who deletes
files outside darktable. A button to delete all skulls in the selected
folder ('film roll') would be welcome, but I can live without it.
So why do I use darktable? Because it also has a dark(room) :-) side,
which I like a lot.
Cheers,
Kofa
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