Darktable users forums11/12/2023 ![]() ![]() One could also argue that since Darktable is the only software doing something different, then "what everyone else does" is the defacto standard. xmp extension added to it, and PM is violating said "standard" by REPLACING the existing extension with. Quote from: pll on December 06, 2022, 06:37:02 AM So, one could argue that Darktable IS following the "standard", since the original name of the file is preserved, with a. Sym (soft) Linking would likely be a better idea as it gives you more flexibility in that you end up with seemingly 2 different xmp files, but Darktable would access the real file using the symlink, and PM via it's own filename convention. I'm not sure how soon we could support such a feature, given that it goes against the defacto standard, but I'll propose it to our Product Team and see what they say."įor the time being, and for those on Macs, a simple workaround would be to either copy or (hard or soft) link he Photomechanic XMP file to a Darktable-compatible filename. While I understand Kirk is probably not the official spokesperson for everything Camerabits says or does, it would be far more becoming of the company for someone to state something like, "Hey, this is a great idea. For someone who knows the code it's likely less than a day's worth of work to get it working, and at most a week's worth of QA to write and run all the proper unit and integration tests for the automated CI/CD pipeline to verify. To add support for a filename preference when saving to disk is not rocket science. xmp extension instead of replacing it?Īs a software developer myself, I find it ridiculous that that's the excuse being used. So really, how hard is it to add one more option to preserve the original filename and APPEND the. Camberabits and every other software company on the planet changes their software all the time, if they didn't, they wouldn't stay in business.Īdditional PM ALREADY supports different naming conventions, just open up the preferences and look under the Files section and you'l see a drop-down clearly labelled "File Extensions". To claim "we'd have to change our software to something non-standard" is ridiculous. (case in point, Word Perfect did this when Microsoft release MS Word in early 1990s. For Camberabits to essentially claim, "Sorry, we're following whatever our competitor dictates." doesn't really seem like the best business decision. The very software company many of us are attempting to avoid. Keep in mind, this "standard" is being put forth by Adobe. But that's kind of a lame argument when there is no official standard and the only document dictating a convention is ambiguous in it's definition of "proper filename". ![]() So, one could argue that Darktable IS following the "standard", since the original name of the file is preserved, with a. ![]()
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