I think that we need to differentiate between novice, intermediate and
advanced users of the software. Different people start off at different
stages; the more adventurous people would most probably read up a lot from
the manual and start off somewhere between intermediate and advanced.
My opinion is that software UI should be optimised for novice users, with
the opportunity for advanced users to customise or tweak the software based
on their own needs. The reason is that novice users will have to learn the
software first, and progress upwards in terms of skill level. Software that
are designed for advanced and more technical users will impose an
impossible learning curve for novice users, in which they may never
progress up in skill level because they simply cannot, due to the way the
software was designed. However, advanced users and technical users will be
able to find their way around the software and hopefully be able to
customise the software to suit their preferences, regardless of how
retarded the software was designed. Basically, making the software more
usable for technical users makes it immensely confusing and difficult to
use for novice users, or average users. The fact that not many people
complain about the UI does not necessarily mean that nobody sees a problem
with it; it could also mean that many users have already given up on using
the software because it is too difficult to use.
The thing here is that Darktable seems to be designed primarily for
advanced and more technical users. Few things in darktable are easy to use
or understand. For instance, a novice/non-technical user will be confused
by the various denoise modules available: raw denoise, denoise (non-local
means), denoise (bilateral). None of those make sense to non-technical
users, until they read the user manual. Having said that, I read the user
manual and still could not understand the difference between non-local and
bilateral. I just adjust based on what I see. Which is bad because I can
probably do a better job if I actually knew what they did.
On 14 May 2013 20:30, María Leandro <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I use DT the same than Marie-Noëlle, it's more a creative process and even
> if I understand the difference between both, is just since I have been
> working with usermanual that I have got interest into what the modules
> processing order means, however, most of the -users- won't see this if they
> don't have a technical level or at least use DT as a daily work tool.
>
> Improving the order of how modules are shown doesn't seem like the most
> needed feature right now; probably is just a matter of spread or make more
> intuitive the fact that the module order at your workflow matters and
> affect your processing speed.
>
>
> 2013/5/14 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[email protected]>
>
>>
>>
>> 2013/5/14 Torsten Bronger <[email protected]>
>>
>>> Unless you mean only users who know what the
>>> module order means. But one has to read about it in the manual; it
>>> is not intuitive. FWIW, it took me a long time to learn about it.
>>> Before that, I thought the module order was random.
>>>
>>> And have it changed anything for you/your way of working on your
>> pictures since you know the order has a special meaning?
>>
>> Marie-Noëlle
>>
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>>
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