Philippe

Don't know if this is the right place to give opinion. If not, please let me know. About tags, I have no production goal and therefore my preferences are different....

> all necessary metadata comes from rawspeed Great! Fine, Exif is out in that case. > if you are actually using tags for some specific workflow/to solve an actual photography...

Thinking, ... lighttable is where the workflows can meet or diverge ... What about the possibility to launch vkdt darkroom as a [kind of] standalone executable for a single image...

> following your explanations, i don't see the need to ingest exif/xmp/etc data into vkdt's brain. Agreed, until export time... I need to understand better what can be done there...

Thanks for your comments. I understand your arguments. > you can later do "things" with it (outside vkdt) The lighttable, inside vkdt, is just about organization and navigation inside that...

> Am I on a valid path ? I'm afraid not. Detaching (deleting) an image symlink, the corresponding real image's folder collection is not in memory. So there is no...

darktable uses osm-gps-map and draws thumbnails (pixbuf) on top of the map. You may want to have a look at the code (https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/blob/41b270b6c0a0d9aeed1b59c3477da5e6121e007f/src/views/map.c#L634).

Thanks. Trying to understand. Denoising is based on a blurring process (averaging). To preserve the structure blurring should not be applied on the structure. To identify the structure there is...

Thanks @rawfiner !

Side comment. Ctrl-Shift double click toggles between film roll and folder. This is a quick way to go the right folder collection after importing.