Variable for the style name

Software darktable
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I have created various styles for the most of my negative images. It would be very useful to display the style name under the images. I would like to do that by using a variable for the style name. Is that a possibility for the future upgrades?

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You might be able to get this with the tags variable…I have never made use of it in this way but if you tagged your images with a style name then you could use that via the tags variable… I’d have to test the systax

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Thanks. I never used the tag feature and not very fimiliar with it. If I do as you suggesting, as I switch between the styles for comparison , I need to remember to change the tag also. Unless some how there is a way to associate a tag with a style name.

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When you apply a style, a tag darktable|style|<style name> is applied

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Would you please elaborate.

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I kind of, figured out how the tagging works. Display the style tag is a two step process to display the style name under the thumbnail or image. Meaning as I change the style, I must also revise the tag.
BTW, while I was testing this, I found out all the styles that were deleted their tag still exist. It seems DT did not clean out from its database. Unless there is a saparate step required for cleaning out DB. As I said earlier, I am not familiar with tagging and usually do not use it. Maybe because it is not a simple step to use it.

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An image may have any number of styles applied to it, and manual editing may also cause it to diverge from the settings stored in those styles. So even though darktable applies tags automatically, they are not necessarily very useful, and there is no notion of an ‘active’ style (or set of styles).

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Yes, you are absolutely correct. I came to same realization. I am trying to create a process/workflow for rescanning thousands of negatives. Finally, after many testing I came up with a set of steps as a style to treat all negatives with a basic treatment before any further steps. It would have been helpful if I could quickly compare this 1st step style variations. Naming a history for future use also could have been useful. Which here I tried to do as a named style.