[Rawstudio-users] Rawstudio 1.0 release candidate 1

[Anders Kvist]

Olli Hänninen wrote:
>
>            But which thumbnail should it show when the photo is not open?
>
>         IMHO, Rawstudio should remember which tab (A, B, C) was open
>         for each file when I last time viewed it. So, if I am viewing
>         tab A on photo1.raw, then jump to photo2.raw and edit settings
>         on tab B, and then jump back to photo1.raw, I should be having
>         tab A open, because it was the tab I was last time using for
>         that photo. If I again jump back to photo2.raw, it would show
>         tab B. I think this would be most logical, but it might
>         require some additional code lines :-) The cache xml-files
>         could include one more additional row telling which was the
>         tab last time used for the photo in question.
>
>     Okay, so you are working on a set of photos and configure all A
>     settings. Afterwards you wanna create a b/w set of the same
>     photos, so you use setting B for those. Every time you switch
>     photo, you also have to switch to tab B. After you've done this,
>     you figure out you will need to fine-tune all your setting A
>     photos again... you get the point? :)
>
>
>
> That is a very good point. My work-flow has always been concentrated 
> on single images rather than sets of images (it is difficult enough to 
> get one good photo, not to even mention a greater number of good shots 
> ;-) ) so I didn't think of it that way.
>
> So, there are two ways to approach this problem. What if they both 
> were combiner? Basically, Rawstudio could remember last used active 
> tab for each separate photo, BUT you could have a method (short-cuts 
> like CTRL+A, CTRL+B and CTRL+C, or CTRL+click on the tab name) to 
> easily set the active tab for ALL files in the folder in question. 
> This way, you could either tweak individual photos on multiple tabs 
> (and have them opened always on the last used tab), or select all the 
> photos to open in certain tab (with just one click after which all 
> photos would open on the desired tab). Wouldn't even be too 
> complicated for the user to understand this functionality...   ...or 
> would it?
>
> Well, the original question was about the see the thumbnails be 
> updated. I'm very happy to see it happen were the details anything at 
> all :-)
I can't promise anything, but we'll take a look at it and see what we 
can do after 1.0, okay? :)

/Anders Kvist