Greetings,
I’m using latest darktable version built from sources on Fedora 38. When I open a new photo in darkroom white balance is set to camera reference and color calibration is enabled. Is it possible to change this default to white balance as shot and color calibration off? I know I can create a style with these settings but then how can I apply it by default for new images?
Search for the ‘initial workflow’ Lua script.
PS: since you didn’t post an image to edit, I moved your post from PlayRaw to the darktable category.
My solution is to set the workflow setting in preferences to ‘none’ - means you don’t get filmic or sigmoid applied by default, but you do get the white balance config you describe. I like this workflow anyway, and do actually use color calibration at times. But it’s certainly not for everyone.
The small caveat to that is that blending in modules will be set to rgb display and not scene so you wont have the fulcrum slider on those modules that use it unless you change… This is not obvious and I haven’t looked but not sure its a documented consequence of choosing none
Kofa seems to have supplied a suitable reply and solution to your problem. Personally I have created a style which sets both exposure and white balance to as shot in the camera as the exposure module by default wants to counteract my in camera exposure compensation. With this style I also include my initial denoising and sharpening (some people prefer to do these steps later in the editing).
In 2021 I made a post on this topic, but it is still awaiting a decision. We have to wait.