Re: [darktable-dev] Adding a browser

2021-10-08 Thread Per Inge Oestmoen
Hello all. The inclusion of a browser in Darktable is neither necessary, nor desirable, nor feasible. That is reality. Darktable is truly brilliant. Per Inge Oestmoen, Norway > Lorenzo Fontanella wrote: Evening, I submit to you some considerations: DarkTable originated along the lines of

Re: [darktable-user] Re: [darktable-dev] Adding a browser

2021-10-07 Thread Solarer
Sorry, but is this about darktable taking ages to import 500.000 for the first time or about darktable being slow AFTER the import? If it is the first case then there is nothing wrong - do the import over night or interrupt it and continue next day. That is a huge amount of images and it will t

Re: [darktable-user] Re: [darktable-dev] Adding a browser

2021-10-07 Thread Bernhard
Hi Graham, sorry, but this is - for technical reasons - not correct - besides that darktable is very capable in both tasks already: managing images as well as editing. But: for technical reasons with non-destructive imaging you never see what you get in any other application than the one you

Re: [darktable-dev] Adding a browser

2021-10-07 Thread Graham White
Hi. I think there may be some cultural background that you're not aware of, which is this. Linux (and Unix before that) was developed on the philosophy of "one task one program" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy ), according to which programs were designed to do one thing and to do

Re: [darktable-dev] Adding a browser

2021-10-06 Thread Peter Harde
You can start dt from the commandline by the command *darktable * and it will open only this single file.  Or you can use *darktable * to open all files from the selected folder. See https://darktable-org.github.io/dtdocs/special-topics/program-invocation/darktable/ Regards Peter Harde Am

Re: [darktable-dev] Adding a browser

2021-10-06 Thread Lorenzo Fontanella
Good evening Pascal I speak about my needs of course, but I know many photographers who think the same and are in the same situation. I have a RAW + JPEG archive of about 500 000 files (video excluded), consisting of files from various Nikon, Fujifilm Sigma (*) cameras. In my current state, it is

Re: [darktable-dev] Adding a browser

2021-10-06 Thread Pascal Obry
Hi Lorenzo, > I'm obviously talking about the lack of a browser integrated to the > software that allows you to simply browse the folders of the HDD and > open the images you want to edit. The misunderstanding is probably there. darktable is not an image browser, it is not even designed to hand

[darktable-dev] Adding a browser

2021-10-06 Thread Lorenzo Fontanella
Evening, I submit to you some considerations: DarkTable originated along the lines of Lightroom but with the purpose of remaining open source and making improvements over the same software from Adobe. Today the 2 softwares are almost alternative to each other. Using DT, I realize (and I'm always am