> I would advocate for a separate view for that, let's call it "digital assets management" view.
I like this idea, but I think only having the film band makes it somewhat awkward for selecting a bunch of images. Perhaps if it maintained the collect images module it would be ok. On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 12:02, Aurélien Pierre <rese...@aurelienpierre.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have mixed feelings about the classical module approach for an EXIF > editor. See how the tagging module already behaves… not great. > > Modules are good when you only have a couple of consistent options (mostly > sliders and drop-down boxes) used to do one thing. But given that the > sidebars can't be resized dynamically in width, and every user will have a > different available screen height / DPI, modules are limited, and fixed > heights are a burden. > > I would advocate for a separate view for that, let's call it "digital > assets management" view. Use a film band, at the bottom of screen to sort > and select the pictures to edit (same as the darkroom one), and take a > full screen to put all text fields in a comfortable way. What you are > trying to do is a text editor, mostly. You could expand the EXIF metadata > editing with hierarchical tagging views, GPS/date overwriting, ratings and > maybe source file path edition (for orphan pictures in the database). > > Let's think bigger, for this kind of feature, than just squizzing "yet > another module" inside the already crowded lighttable. > > Photojournalists for news agencies/papers/stock archives only rely on the > metadata of the pictures to get proper credits and salary, because that's > how agencies manage their stock. Thus the tagging/metadata edition is a > critical part of photography now (at least, for professionals), which is > holding back a lot of guys on Lightroom, and should not be rushed into the > easiest/fastest way the code the thing. Let's think about efficient ways to > batch-edit metadata for large sets of pictures. > > Aurélien. > Le 22/07/2019 à 18:42, philippe.weyl...@libertysurf.fr a écrit : > > Great ! > > > it should be kept within the module, as this better fits the usual > metadata-editing workflow. > > +1 > > > The unwieldiness might be countered by letting the user specify what set of > metadata keys should appear for editing. > > +1 > The user keys selection could be done / udapted in a pop window. To every key > the user should be able to select the corresponding metadata tag family > (exif, xmp, ...), at least the most common. But this can bring some > complexity too (language, ...). > > Philippe > > ----- Mail original ----- > De: "Maurizio Paglia" <mpagl...@gmail.com> <mpagl...@gmail.com> > À: "August Schwerdfeger" <aug...@schwerdfeger.name> <aug...@schwerdfeger.name> > Cc: "darktable" <darktable-dev@lists.darktable.org> > <darktable-dev@lists.darktable.org> > Envoyé: Lundi 22 Juillet 2019 12:05:38 > Objet: Re: [darktable-dev] Full metadata editor > > > > Hi, > this is very interesting! > Sometimes I find dt panels a little restricting (i.e. the fixed dimensions do > not fit good for all the modules). > Maybe the request of having panels with different dimensions could help. > But is is possible to have each module expanded while clicking on its title? > I mean expanded in a window exceeding the dimension of the side panel where > you can see ALL controls. > > > To come back quickly to the original question I will prefere standard > behaviour instead of popup too. > > > Thanks, > Maurizio > > > > Il giorno lun 22 lug 2019 alle ore 16:56 August Schwerdfeger < > aug...@schwerdfeger.name > ha scritto: > > > > > I am in favor of an expanded metadata editor, but I think it should be kept > within the module, as this better fits the usual metadata-editing workflow. > The unwieldiness might be countered by letting the user specify what set of > metadata keys should appear for editing. > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > 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
