[Kde-imaging] [Bug 148561] Missing options in RAW conversion; terrible conversion of dark photos

[Guillaume Castagnino]

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------- Additional Comments From casta xwing info  2007-08-15 09:42 -------
Yes, I agree that adding a custom free-text field could be like "old Linux GUI philosophy". It has always be and always will be a challenge to make a good GUI to a command line tool. But I think it could have some advantages :

Currently, each time you add a new option in libkdcraw, this breaks binary compatibility and all programs that use libkdcraw (digikam/kipi-plugins) need an update to manage the new dcraw option. If not, the new option will simply be ignored. Such field would let user add custom options, without breaking any compatibility each time you want to manage a new option...
Of course, it's better to manage properly options in the dialog, but as you said, it's sometime a challange to add and maintain a lot of options in dcraw since they often change... So such free-text field could be a good meanwhile solution to manage exotic options that you would probably never support in the GUI

I agree, it's easy to break dcraw output by setting weired options here. So for bug-report purpose, first thing should be (of course) :  "remove all the custom options you set up"... Since only advanced users that know how such options are handled internally should use such field.

my 2 cents,
Regards
Guillaume