One star is not default rating of newly imported images

[mitchallain]

The Overview section of the docs suggests that 1 star should be the default rating of newly imported images.

Since darktable assigns a 1 star rating to newly-imported images by default, ...

https://github.com/darktable-org/dtdocs/blob/9263302d040f81fc3c378648154ef56245ce581a/content/overview/workflow/import-review.md?plain=1#L23

Which does seem to agree with the config on master for this ui option

https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/blob/a30f4ac621a0075f799a271288062ba05a977fa6/data/darktableconfig.xml.in#L1054-L1060

However, in practice newly imported images appear to be unrated.

[victoryforce]

Which does seem to agree with the config on master for this ui option

https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/blob/a30f4ac621a0075f799a271288062ba05a977fa6/data/darktableconfig.xml.in#L1054-L1060

@mitchallain You are right and have correctly found the corresponding configuration key and its default value. Yes, this is indeed the number of stars that will be assigned to imported images by default.

However, in practice newly imported images appear to be unrated.

This can only mean that you have changed this value at some point. In the import module there is an initially collapsed "parameters" expander. When you expand it, you will see the "initial rating" setting, where you can specify the desired value instead of the default.

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[victoryforce]

@elstoc This issue can be closed, that's for sure. As we can see from the link in the issue, the documentation contains the correct information. Apparently the bug reporter changed the default setting but forgot about it.

[mitchallain]

@victoryforce

Aha, I appear to have been missing the "ignore EXIF rating" setting. Sorry for the false positive. Suggested docs update:

Since darktable assigns a 1 star rating to newly-imported images by default (if the image does not contain an EXIF rating or the "ignore EXIF rating" is checked), this will show all of the images you have just imported

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