You won’t see your darktable edits in digikam unless you export a jpeg of your edit. Digikam can’t run darktable’s processing pipeline to show you that edit.
My workflow is as follows:
- Script that uses exiftool copies and renames all images from SD Card to my local disk in format YYYY-MM-DD
- Add all images to git-annex
- Retrieve GPS logs from phone and copy the GPX file into the correct date folder.
- Add GPX file to git (not git annex)
- Open Geeqie and look thru new pictures. Press D key to open an image in darktable if I want to edit it.
- Once all images culled in geeqie, move over to darktable. Edit and tag. apply geolocation using the gpx file. Export when the edits are finished.
But why? This only seems practical if people are using the environment once. Otherwise you’re just wasting a lot of bandwidth downloading dependencies over and over.
You should really just set up nix garbage collection to run once a week or something and be done with it.