Just installed DT 3.8 via flatpak (on ubuntu 20.04) and it seems to run great. Really snappy, noticeably faster than 3.6. Even openCL (nvidia) worked out of the box.
One caveat with the flatpak is that the home folder changes so prior presets have to be exported/imported if you want to keep them.
The other caveat, and my question here, is what happened with the ‘dot’ (period, keyboard character) shortcut, it does not come pre-defined (before, the ‘dot’ shortcut was used to quickly toggle between lighttable and darktable views). Exploring the new shortcuts system I could not figure out a way to recreate this shortcut via configuration. Is there a way to do this?
It was a handy shortcut - I used it all the time
A while back, all the “view” shortcuts (darkroom, map, print, tethering) were changed to toggles (so if already in darkroom, pressing “d” again would take you back to lighttable). This made the dot a duplicate and it was removed. If you prefer it to “d”, or want to have both even if duplicates, one of the advantages of the new input system is that you can have multiple shortcuts (possibly from different, midi, devices or with different speeds) assigned to the same action.
So in the shortcuts dialog (or preferences page), find the existing “d” → global/switch views/darkroom shortcut, double click it to add a new shortcut and press “.”
You can copy all your config files and databases from ~/.config/darktable/ to ~/.var/app/org.darktable.Darktable/config/darktable (while darktable is closed), then start darktable and everything should be there.
Thanks @paperdigits! that worked. Still I decided to start from a fresh config to see what changed, after many years of carrying forward my configuration.
The only other problem I bumped into so far - that seems to be an issue with the flatpak itself - is theming, if I change the theme to anything other than ‘darktable’ or ‘darktable-icons’, this is what I get:
