On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:13:25AM -0500, Udi Fuchs wrote: > > The ID file is also used to log the conversion process.
I think this is a flaw, really. A log file is a totally separate function and should be written as a separate file if the user wants it. > If, for example, some command-line options are given, I think it > should be recorded in the ID file. > On the other hand, re-writing the ID file would break a Makefile mechanism. I think there should be an explicit option to select which behaviour is wanted. There are plenty of scenarios where I would want to apply an option change across a set of ID files and reprocess them to get an improved output, e.g. using a new camera profile, or applying a better white balance setting to all the images in a set. In these cases I want to tell ufraw-batch to rewrite the ID files. In other scenarios, I might want to generate some output files with different settings, to a different location, without overwriting my original settings. E.g. producing outputs in a different format or size for the web, or batch-testing alternative image settings without committing to keeping them. In these cases I want to tell ufraw-batch to leave the ID files alone. > Users that want that the conversion would always be applied in batch could > use: > > alias ufraw='ufraw --create-id=only' > > This way they will never have to wait for ufraw to finish. I don't think passing command line options to ufraw should ever be the only way to get at its functionality. For most users it gets launched from menus, or by clicking on raw files, or is invoked by other software like image browsers. Changing the command line options in all these places is a hassle. It should be possible to set everything from the GUI and have it stored in .ufrawrc. Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ ufraw-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ufraw-devel
