Re: [darktable-dev] Idea: Make XMP files hidden

2016-11-23 Thread Pascal Obry
Hi Jonas, > so I have attempted to script it, please see attached script. Well, chflags does not exists on GNU/Linux. It should be chattr. Now I think this is quite dangerous. If someone move files directly from the file explorer, then the .xmp won't be moved with them. I know that this is BAD

Re: [darktable-dev] Idea: Make XMP files hidden

2016-11-22 Thread James C. McPherson
On 23/11/16 05:28 am, Jonas Diemer wrote: Hi James, thanks for your quick reply. The problem is that darktable creates XMP files for each and every imported photo. These files appear in typical file browsers (alphabetically in between the image files), which makes it harder to browse photos

Re: [darktable-dev] Idea: Make XMP files hidden

2016-11-22 Thread Jonas Diemer
Hi James, thanks for your quick reply. The problem is that darktable creates XMP files for each and every imported photo. These files appear in typical file browsers (alphabetically in between the image files), which makes it harder to browse photos with these. In my case, I use a central

[darktable-dev] Idea: Make XMP files hidden

2016-11-22 Thread Jonas Diemer
Hi everyone, some users (like me ;) ) seem to be distracted by the XMP sidecar files created by darktable (and likewise Lightroom). I would suggest adding an option to make them hidden, i.e. mark the files as hidden during their creation. Like calling "chflags hidden“ on the file on Mac. Not