I have around 10 modules added to my quick access panel. However, I can’t order them. I know DT applies modules in a specific order and i’m ok with that. I just want to see the modules in my panel as the same way I step through them. For example, crop, then exposure, then something else, etc. I’m on windows.
I’ve read through that and nothing about ordering
Just found this on organizing DT. hopefully gets me what I want.
[ENG] darktable : organising the darkroom - YouTube
I would say don’t reorder the modules to match the order you apply them. You can reorder modules using the ctr + shift and drag and dropping but this can seriously screw up the pipeline. Maybe a more experienced person can agree or disagree with me. But my understanding is that the pipeline does not and doesn’t need to match the order you apply the modules.
I think he is talking about how things are organized in the QA panel not actually changing any pipeline stuff
I think the QA panel, like all other tabs, is in pipeline order.
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The only way I can reorganize the QA panel is to reorganize the pipeline so I feel this is an idea that @chrisman should give up on. In the grand scheme of things it should make little difference that the QA panel is not in the order he likes. BTW, for my personal taste, one of the first things I do is get rid of the QA panel, but I guess some people like it and benefit from it.
IMO if the order of the QA (or maybe a Favorites) panel could be superficially (i.e., in the UI presentation only) decoupled from the pipeline order, it could make a nice “workflow menu”. Just arrange all your favorite ops in your preferred order and work from one end to the other. The pipeline will continue to run in the right order regardless. But as far as I know, that’s not possible.
Also, given my comments elsewhere today about me functionally moving on from darktable, this is just a theoretical comment on my part. 
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You can’t customize the order but you can cherry pick and add almost anything to it so I expect there are some that do make use of it … it was a goal of mine to make a sweet set of controls that would be all together in one place but I have been too lazy or whatever to actually spend the time to actually set it up…
Me, me!!
I always use it, extensively. I basically have all my commonly used modules on it, in some cases with some controls displayed, in others just the on/off, and it’s basically my gateway to the modules most of the time. After adjusting one module, I go back to the quick access page and choose the next module to adjust.
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I tried using a favourites list once and all of my most used modules including denoise and sharpening were in it. I would check it before export in case I had neglected sharpening or denoising. I used to do these last on my slower computer but with a faster computer and a faster DT I do them early now.
That is what I love about DT. We can have our own editing process and are not forced down a single pathway. I have just created my own custom layout of modules placed in logical groups for me. I have one group for modules that are primarily tone adjustments such as exposure, shadow and highlights, tone equalizer, local contrast etc. Another group that are primarily colour adjustments. A third group that I call corrections such as perspective, cropping, chromatic aberration, lens correction etc. Then finally a group primarily for sharpening and denoising. This works for me as an efficient way to find modules I want. I no longer have a favourites group or QA panel. But what ever works best for the user. I also agree that maybe a list of QA or favorites that could be set different to pipeline would be nice. I would use it. Someone needs to put in a feature request and justify it.
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Me too!
That is how I have been using DT since I started, not long ago. I know my way around the other tabs a bit better now (and have customised-out some of the stuff I’ll never use, which makes them easier to handle — but I’ll go on using the favourites tab.
Second to favouties, I use the modules-in-use tab when I know I want another instance of something
I too would love to be able to change the order of Favourites to a workflow-not-pipeline order. But I can live with it as it is. And do.
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