![]() I've tried Digikam, and while it's the only one that seems to handle the library in a semi-respectable fashion (with the experimental, now-deprecated MySQL backend enabled, which iirc took some manual massaging to even make compile anymore), it's hard to get the components I really wanted to work reliably (it's very important the my camera's GPS tags can be mapped and sorted this is my main interest in a library manager and as of now, all such programs are too overloaded to do this competently or half-broken like Digikam's integration, and when I need GPS-based information I guess I will have to try to write a script that reads the coords out manually with exiftool instead of trying out Yet Another Library Manager).Īdobe is absolutely that 1k lb gorilla in the room that everyone is afraid to compete with. I've tried Lightroom but it too struggles with my library folder, although unlike Darktable, it is marginally usable. :'(Īt the moment I don't have a good library app, I just browse the directory structure. I resent that Windows's bad, less flexible behavior has forced me to make it my host OS. ![]() Perhaps I should re-organize around Darktable, but right now I have other components of my workflow that are hard to imagine replacing, primarily DxO - this was the main driver that got me to switch to a Windows host running a Linux VM and doing all my real work over SSH to the local VM, after years of struggling through painfully slow editing in a Windows VM on a Linux host. Every time I would try to point it at my library folder it would choke to death. I regret that I haven't really had the opportunity to explore Darktable very thoroughly. He deserves a big Thank You from everyone, especially the owners (and maybe they did ?). It's great that windows dev contributed so much and improved. But again, other than being crass, I dont see any problem. What a shame, I've heard similar stories about people who try to contribute to open source and get treated badly. That sucks, sounds like they were rude (or perhaps they turned rude when the original "dont call this fork Darktable, please" didn't get heeded ?). I dont see anything wrong here, other than the owners weren't exactly welcoming, encouraging, or perhaps helpful. It's his contribution, which is to port the original owners' project to windows. I dont know), the one that the owners incorporated and improved ?Īlso, it's not "his" (the windows dev's) project. Is there anything preventing him from checking out the latest version of the code (serious question, * Yes it's ok for the owners to use a working contribution to better their project for each and Thats what "contributing to open source" means. * Yes it's ok for the owners to "take" someones work when said person volunteered to it. * Yes it's ok for the owners of the project to accept working code. * Yes it's ok for the *owners* of the project to reject buggy code. I dont see anything wrong with what you just described. It reads off the memory card and renames files and directories to a standard format.Ī few months ago, I brought many years worth of sorted directories of images into Darktable and went to bed and when I woke up it had added everything to the database and I could sort by name and remove duplicates and look at thumbnails and remove junk that had been saved alongside stuff I wanted during bulk operations.Īnyway, since Darktable runs on Mac, there's not a drop dead reason not to give it a spin alongside whatever you're currently using. ![]() Well now that my workflow uses RapidPhotoDownloader on the front end. Darktable lets me triage those photos and filter them for processing without managing a file system. I'll often shoot several hundred images in a day (even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes). What Rawtherapee lacks is the 'light table' feature for handling bulk photographs. I like RawTherapee's editing controls and love that its sidecar files are somewhat human readable (Darktable's are not). I am also a hobbyist and I use Darktable.
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