I would like to provide a counterpoint. I am wondering if perhaps the quick-slider panel way of doing things actually is more natural for people who come from lightroom or other programs, just because it exists in those programs.
I pretty much started using darktable first, and only tried Lightroom later. For me, after a few days of using it, using darktable became very natural. This is true for both quick edits and complex development. The concepts I want to use are easily mapped onto darktable functions. In contrast, I tried Lightroom for a few days out of interest and I found their 'quick slider' approach to be frustrating and counterintuitive, simply because I used it after using darktable. After using Lightroom for a while I got used to it too, but I prefer darktable's UI. My first point is that if this 'simple slider' function were made part of dt, it should be easy to deactivate it so that it does not appear at all. My second point is that perhaps there is also simplicity in the way darktable currently does things, and from some users' perspectives, having a 'simple slider' function that links to other modules might actually complicate the UI. Moreover, if a bunch of new users are exposed to the 'simple slider', I wonder if it might make it more complicated for some and easier for others? (In that having two ways to modify an option might be confusing, and there is a real chance of messing up the nice system we already have). Jason On 2018-07-12 01:35 AM, kneops wrote: > I could present myself as an example user. I started like many others in > the ninetees with Photoshop, part as a freelance photographer, later > combied with my profession as a webdesigner. I worked for many years on > Windows and Macs, now exclusively on Linux. I used many kinds of > software, from llustrator to Flash to Gimp to all kinds of video editing > software and raw processors. Never have I encountered a piece of > software that gave me such troubles getting used to as DT. In the last > couple of years I installed and removed it many many times. A few months > ago I gave it another try and now I'm using it as my main raw processor, > but each time hoping there would be a simpler UI. ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
