grouping lighttable's collect modules

Software darktable
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darktable is fantastic and getting better all the time.

In its feature development, it has gained many ways to narrow down a large library of images into a set of images to work on. This has caused the collect module’s source list to grow to be quite large and in an ad-hoc way. It’s not easy to find common things like “tag”, for example, and the list feels now very long and unorganized.

I’ve opened an issue at Improve collection sources with grouping · Issue #5478 · darktable-org/darktable · GitHub with a proposed grouping.

Hopefully this is easy to fix in darktable. I know the widget exists to group items, as it’s used in the overlay selector in the darkroom area, so it should be possible to use it in the lighttable area too.

What do you think?

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By the way; here’s what I suggested as a starting point:

base

  • film roll
  • folders
  • tag

time

  • date taken
  • datetime taken
  • import timestamp
  • change timestamp
  • export timestamp
  • print timestamp

technical

  • camera
  • lens
  • aperture
  • exposure
  • focal length
  • iso
  • aspect ratio

metadata

  • title
  • description
  • creator
  • publisher
  • rights
  • notes
  • color label
  • geotagging

darktable

  • filename
  • version name
  • grouping
  • local copy
  • history
  • module
  • module order

Do you think this works well? Should anything change in the list?

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Technical should be… Capture details? Hard to segment things as there is a lot of overlap with other categories. Good suggestion tho.

I use the recent module a lot, which is right below the collect module.

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I would switch lists between color labels and tags. I think the first is more basic for image selection during editing, while the second is actually exportable metadata.