[digiKam-users] Digikam and Darktable

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

In Setup/Editor/RawImport section, digiKam as a newoptin to select an
external tool as Darktable to preprocess RAW file externally before to
import in editor canvas. This feature was improved with 7.0.0
currenlty in pre-release candidate here :

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le mar. 12 mai 2020 à 22:40, <digikam at 911networks.com> a écrit :
>
> DK 6.4.0 appimage and DT 3.0.2 (Manjaro/KDE)
>
> I use DK as my DAM and I starting to use Darktable.
>
> I select my image in DK > right click > open with > darktable and it
> works.
>
> I finish my processing in Darktable, I close Darktable while keeping
> Digikam open. I do a "bunch of stuff", find another image > right
> click > open with: > darktable. And it hangs on the start of Darktable.
>
> When I look at the process table, I can see that the process
> darktable exist. I have to kill it. I have to close Digikam, restart
> digikam, then I can send the selected image to darktable.
>
> 1. Am I doing something wrong?
> 2. Is there a better way of communicating between DT and DK?
> 3. Should I import the images/albums in DK and then again in DT?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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> sknahT
>
> vyS