Re: [darktable-user] Turning Darktable into a file manager

2020-06-26 Thread Remco Viëtor
On vendredi 26 juin 2020 22:22:46 CEST August Schwerdfeger wrote: > The optimal solution, then, would be to allow those who want file-manager > capabilities to get and/or implement them without having to distract the > core developers from the image-editing side. > > I think this would be best don

Re: [darktable-user] Turning Darktable into a file manager

2020-06-26 Thread Remco Viëtor
On vendredi 26 juin 2020 23:43:21 CEST August Schwerdfeger wrote: > As far as "user stories" go, I recall that users have written to this list > more than once about two specific missing features: some form of batch > renaming, and support for the full range of IPTC and other metadata, which > is a

Re: [darktable-user] Why does Darktable import more images than exist on my SD card?

2020-06-26 Thread Jason Polak
Just going to second what you said regarding the "fun" in darktable. I've been using darktable for about five years now and have edited over 20K images. It is just really fun to use, which a lot of modules that allow really fine-grained adjustment. The only thing I did not really enjoy was noise r

Re: [darktable-user] Turning Darktable into a file manager

2020-06-26 Thread Michael
I agree. There are already a multitude of ways to move, copy and bulk rename files. On June 26, 2020 7:27:53 PM UTC, Charlie Goodwin wrote: >Seeing many posts asking for adding more and more file management >capabilities into Darktable, I'd like to suggest that we do not divert >attention away

Re: [darktable-user] Why does Darktable import more images than exist on my SD card?

2020-06-26 Thread Terry Pinfold
Hi Tony, I teach photography and imaging classes. I promote GIMP as a free alternative to Photoshop because it does 99% of what photoshop does, is free and in my opinion is nicer to work with. I do not promote DT as a LR alternative because in my opinion it is not. LR is a program designed

Re: [darktable-user] Turning Darktable into a file manager

2020-06-26 Thread Terry Pinfold
With DT we are getting a great product for free because of the fantastic effort of the developers. If someone wants to volunteer their time to improve the data asset management side of DT then it would replace the need of programs such as LR which is now a monthly subscription. If I had the compute

Re: [darktable-user] Turning Darktable into a file manager

2020-06-26 Thread Marco DE BOOIJ
Just my 2 cents. I also place the files myself in the 'right' directory but it would be nice if there was no distinction between the import from a camera and a 'normal' file system (a USB stick for example). At least one should have the choice to copy them into the directory that they use for D

Re: [darktable-user] Turning Darktable into a file manager

2020-06-26 Thread August Schwerdfeger
As far as "user stories" go, I recall that users have written to this list more than once about two specific missing features: some form of batch renaming, and support for the full range of IPTC and other metadata, which is a must-have for many professionals. Neither of these would preclude the use

Re: [darktable-user] Turning Darktable into a file manager

2020-06-26 Thread Willy Williams
If I were to prioritize darktable for either image editing or digital asset management, I'd choose image editing and manually place files in locations where they make sense to me to be.  It the developers could do both, great, but keep the priority on image editing.  One thing that really irrit

Re: [darktable-user] Turning Darktable into a file manager

2020-06-26 Thread Robert Bridge
It comes up as a frequent topic. The thing about the file management aspects is they are a small and relatively trivial subset of a far bigger question: Digital Asset Management. Currently darktable core has a basic DAM capability. Is it something that can be improved? Yes. Is it something that ev

Re: [darktable-user] Turning Darktable into a file manager

2020-06-26 Thread August Schwerdfeger
The optimal solution, then, would be to allow those who want file-manager capabilities to get and/or implement them without having to distract the core developers from the image-editing side. I think this would be best done through the Lua API. There are already many file-manager-type operations f

[darktable-user] Turning Darktable into a file manager

2020-06-26 Thread Charlie Goodwin
Seeing many posts asking for adding more and more file management capabilities into Darktable, I'd like to suggest that we do not divert attention away from the greatest strength, image editing. I'd rather see the devs put more attention into what makes Darktable a must-have, what it can do so well

Re: [darktable-user] Import: I'm failing at step 1; advice please

2020-06-26 Thread darktable
On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:05:23 -0500 August Schwerdfeger wrote: > Question: How difficult would it be to provide access through the > Lua API to the naming patterns used for import-from-camera and > export (e.g., a function that takes an image object and a pattern > string and returns the correspon

Re: [darktable-user] Import: I'm failing at step 1; advice please

2020-06-26 Thread August Schwerdfeger
Any Lightroom comparisons aside, having batch renaming somehow integrated in Darktable (whether part of the import process or not) would be very useful, for me at least. Question: How difficult would it be to provide access through the Lua API to the naming patterns used for import-from-camera and

Re: [darktable-user] Import: I'm failing at step 1; advice please

2020-06-26 Thread tony Hamilton
"BTW, the OP is probably just a troll, he said to be moving from Lr but Lr does exactly the same with the same naming IIRC (Import folder)." Well, yes, I can agree with the first  claim in this sentence *ONLY* if you know me personally, have seen how much work I am investing in this desire and

[darktable-user] Tag Search

2020-06-26 Thread David Vincent-Jones
I now notice that when I search for a specific tag the results show items that are not carrying the tag but are contained in a folder that has a folder-name that includes the tag. David darktable user mailing list to

Re: [darktable-user] Import: I'm failing at step 1; advice please

2020-06-26 Thread darktable
On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 07:57:02 +0200 Pascal Obry wrote: > Le jeudi 25 juin 2020 à 17:46 -0400, Robert Krawitz a écrit : > > BTW, the OP is probably just a troll, he said to be moving from Lr > but Lr does exactly the same with the same naming IIRC (Import > folder). I'd like to make a correction a

Re: [darktable-user] Import: I'm failing at step 1; advice please

2020-06-26 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* tony Hamilton [06-26-20 09:03]: > This is an update after a few days of intense, all-day, reading and > experimentation with the import function of DarkTable 3.0.2. What I am going > to write here is at considerable length and will not be well received by the > Darktable development team. It is