On 11/30/2013 07:44 PM, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote:
> Ack, this would be nice. Please file a feature request under [0]. It might be
> quite easy to enable that.
OK, done issue #9700

> I don't like this idea. I tried it when adding the cursor, but it was
> distracting and had a bad user experience since you either had to delete the
> old value before typing in the new one, or you would see a value, started
> typing and the old one suddenly disappears. That could be "fixed" by adding
> selectable text, so you could preselect the old one and make it replaceable by
> default, but that would be even more distracting.
> So at the end of the day it boils down to our usual approach "a little less
> discoverability is fine if it suits the workflow of the regular users". In 
> other
> words: RTFM. :D
What about adding a simple text control at the bottom of the pop-up 
window with the advanced control.
I suppose it won't look that good, but it will be discoverable. I really 
hope you don't expect people to
read the manual in order to learn how to edit simple numerical values. 
99% of the time they won't do it
and either will ask here or use something else.

> As Jo said: HDR images [1]. They typically span a much wider exposure range,
> so ±18 EV isn't that uncommon.
OK, but still the case for 1/3,1/5 or 1 EV is the common case and 
currently DT doesn't handle it well.
Probably you should introduce the idea of soft and hard limits to the 
parameters. This is a concept used in
Autodesk Maya (probably it is not the only software using it, but I 
don't know others). In Maya the soft limit
is used by the UI to show a useful default range of values, but the user 
can override it by typing the value
manually. Then the hard limits triggers in and will limit the values the 
user can enter. If the user enters a value
outside of the soft limits range the soft range is expanded. If it 
enters a value outside of the hard limit the
value is clamped.
What do you think about such approach?

I'm looking at [1] and I can't seem to find a use case for changing the 
exposure with +18 or -18 stops.
Can you describe the work-flow, so I can get the idea? I'm just curious.

> It will stay as it is. Single click won't work for film strip for two reasons:
> - lighttable uses double click, so it would break user experience\
I don't think, so. My girlfriends' first words about this has been "why 
doesn't it switch images with a single click".
She has been surprised, too.
> - you could no longer select images in the filmstrip.
RawStudio uses single click and it has image selection in its 
filmstrip-like-control.

Best regards,
Teodor

[0] http://darktable.org/redmine/issues/
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-dynamic-range_imaging


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