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I see your point about your editing, if you have an injury. I use darktable nearly daily and I regularly have to spend many hours in darktable and edit hundreds of shots, and I've become very fast at it so I do not think I would personally benefit. However, I do like the idea of customizable categories, and I think that would be far preferable than changing the interface for most existing users. Another disadvantage of your approach is that it places a huge amount of modules in category 1. That would get even more cumbersome to scroll through them if you have multiple instances of each module. Jason On 2018-10-07 11:39 PM, Aurélien Pierre wrote: > The real question here is : could you get past the change and benefit > from it ? > > I'm biased here, since I developed repetitive strain injury in the wrist > at the early age of 23. So I'm basically trying to improve the > efficiency of the workflow by decreasing as much as possible the number > of user interactions on each picture, especially the mouse interactions. > > If it's only for cropping, it can be fixed. At the end, I think it > really depends on how many hours you spend each week on darktable. > Because editing a whole wedding is definitely not the same as editing a > bunch of holidays pictures, so I guess every user will have a different > sensibility to workflow matters and the occasionnal users will mostly > care about the overhead of the refactoring (having to learn things > again) while the regular users will see it as a long-term investment. > > > Le 07/10/2018 à 23:02, Jason Polak a écrit : >> Hi! >> >> I can certainly see the logic of your idea. I definitely prefer the >> current setup, if only because that's what I started with. I think the >> only way to see if this is a good idea is to poll users because I am >> sure there are some that would like your way and some that prefer the >> current way. >> >> I do have a specific criticism about your approach, though. I think >> cropping should come early in the editing process. I care much more >> about adjusting the general exposure and crop (composition) before I >> could even think about lens correction or noise reduction. This is >> doubly so because I take a multi-pass view on editing. I first do some >> basic edits of exposure, cropping, and tone curve adjustments to the >> shots I think are half-decent, and then promote the best ones to the >> next star level. Only with the highest star rating do I even consider >> spending time on noise reduction and lens correction as there is not >> much point on noise reduction in the bad images. >> >> Personally, I have found after a couple months it's easy to remember >> where all the modules are and changing it would only make it worse for me. >> >> Jason ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
