Digikam raw files and darktable

[Juan Jose Casafranca]

Yes, exactly, that is my suggestion :-)
I think that it will give digikam a great boost if it can communicate with
specific raw processors :-)

I understand that it could be an intensive task, but there are some ways to
limit the heavyness.
For example, digikam should only process the new thumbnail when darktable
is opened through digikam interface and at the beginning.
Or maybe just marking which files are dirty and then calling darktable in
lib mode to update those thumbnails.

I would be happy to work on something like this. Any idea on where to begin
with? Ive never touched the digikam code ^^

Cheers

2017-01-06 20:10 GMT+01:00 Simon Frei <freisim93 at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> Do I understand you correctly: You want thumbnails of raw files that are
> adjusted based on the processing profiles of darktable?
> If that is the case, it is (currently) not possible in digikam. And such
> a function would certainly be very resource heavy, as for every
> thumbnail on every change darktable had to process the raw file.
> The interface between digikam and other photo editing software could
> certainly be improved (e.g. versioning too), so I would be very happy if
> you would work on that in any way;)
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
> On 06/01/17 20:01, Juan Jose Casafranca wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I would like to know if there is any easy way to use digikam as a photo
> > management software and use darktable for raw editing.
> >
> > The main issue I'm finding when I try to do this is this one
> > -Raw thumbnails are loaded from the jpeg embeded file and when I change
> process
> > my photo in darktable, this thumbnail isn't changed in digikam
> >
> > It would be nice that digikam reads the darktable sidecar and uses an
> specified
> > software (or digikam editor tool if no software is specified) to load the
> > preview file for raw pictures. Is there any way to do this?
> >
> > If there's no such way to do this, I will be happy to post it in the
> > developers mailing list and try to implement it, because I feel that
> darktable
> > management features are far away from digikam ones and digikam editor
> features
> > are far away from darktable ones. It would be nice to have both softwares
> > working together :-)
> >
> > Any idea?
>
>
>
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