How can the settings and history be remembered if. I use DT in much the same was as sluggy_warrior describes above - works fine. It's been a while since testing so my gripes are not specific, but I did not find it easy to escape/avoid Darktable's database / sidecar / collections functions. Other than that, I don't use the DAM in its lighttable at all (no keyword entering, no searching. The 'recently used collections' also lists the recent folders, so that's handy to switch back and forth between sets, too. From there, I just double-click on the image I want to edit, switching between darkroom and lightable a few times to copy/paste the operations from one image to others, or to export the final JPG. Just curious, can you explain more about 'heavily DAM-centric', how does it get in your way of processing photos?įWIW, I usually click 'Import folder' button, navigate to the set I want to work with, click OK, then it'll show the thumbnails of all the photos in that folder.

Hmm, I use it daily, spend most time in the darkroom, doesn't even remember that it has DAM (I organize my photos in folders with naming convention). You can find the link to the binary on the forum (a great place btw., you should check it out).But the program is heavily DAM-centric, which I didn't care for. Please report useful bugs in our bug tracker.

We know it’s still buggy, but as a sign of goodwill and request for help in testing it we would like to ask you to give it a try. To cut a long story short, we are extremely pleased – albeit wary – to announce a very first official pre-alpha development snapshot for 64 bit Windows. Eventually we became confident that the lack of Windows maintainership might be solved. Like some people before he managed to compile darktable on Windows and offered us the patches he had to do, but other than what we had seen before he stuck around, helped fix bugs and was open to suggestions how to solve things in a better way. Not just for the moment until all the patches got merged but for the foreseeable future.

The gist of it was that the real blocker for a Windows release isn’t so much a technical one but the lack of a person (or several) dedicated to maintaining it. Then two years ago there was yet another post regarding Windows. While I still stand by what I wrote six years ago, the times they are a-changin'. A long time ago there was a post about why we don’t have a Windows port.

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