Hmmm,... It appears that I should have RTFM. Again. Well, it was a nice exercise in playing with the darktable code. Perhaps one day I'll write something useful :-).
But, if there is anyone out there with history stack OCD, I have the fix :-D. Thank you Roman for increasing my enlightenment. Bill On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 4:20 PM, Roman Lebedev <lebedev...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 12:17 AM, William Ferguson <wpfergu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 4:08 PM, Roman Lebedev <lebedev...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 11:52 PM, William Ferguson <wpfergu...@gmail.com > > > >> wrote: > >> > Hello, > >> > > >> > I shoot lots of high school sports. Bad light, high iso, fast action, > >> > etc. > >> > I usually pick one image, process it, then copy the history stack to > the > >> > rest. Then I go through them one by one and tweak the exposure, crop, > >> > rotation, noise reduction, exposure, etc. I try to remember to > compress > >> > my > >> > history stack before I move to the next image, but often don't. > >> > >> > Once I've finished processing all the images, I'd like to compress all > >> > the > >> > history stacks prior to exporting. The itch finally got bad enough > that > >> > I scratched It. > >> Why though? > >> It solves nothing other than maybe acting like a placebo for OCD. > > > > Maybe my understanding of the pixelpipe is flawed. I thought on export > it > > performed all > > the steps in the history stack. Multiple exposure steps probably aren't > > very expensive, but > > multiple noise reduction steps would be. Does the pixelpipe evaluate the > > history stack prior > > to processing it and skip the unneeded steps? > https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/en/darkroom_concepts.html#pixelpipe > > >> > >> > >> > I based the code on the delete function. I noticed in the delete > >> > function > >> > there is a preference to ask before delete. I'm wondering if there > >> > should > >> > be a ask before compress preference? I'm also wondering where to hook > >> > into > >> > the GUI settings to add it? > >> > > >> > I ran it on a collection of 169 images with 102 that needed > compressed. > >> > As > >> > soon as it started, thumbnails started regenerating. The time to > >> > compress > >> > the stack is negligible compared to regenerating the thumbnail. > >> > > >> > Thoughts, comments, suggestions? > >> > > >> > > >> > Bill > >> Roman. > >> > >> > > >> > ____________________________________________________________ > _______________ > >> > darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > >> > darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > _______________ > > darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > > darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
