experiment: Implement new raw/jpeg grouping

[EnTeQuAk]

I'm only getting started on this, and it'll likely need a while to be anywhere useful, or if that's a feature you or the community even want. Regardless, it's a nice learning exercise. 😁

I'm using a Fuji camera and regularly shoot JPEG+RAW to have the best of both worlds, straight out of camera JPEGs which are 80% of the time great, and RAWs for special occasions.

I haven't seen that in other software yet (or I'm blind), so I started experimenting with a grouping feature that groups identical pictures but with different formats and shows, for example, only the JPEG by default, and then in the detail view I can switch to the RAW image.

Example, showcasing my "problem"

And here's the very first iteration implementing that grouping:

Next I want to explore extending the overall indexing to build association links between "identical" files, so that this becomes easier to manage or maybe even for other features. I've seen such an "associated files" already exists when deleting files for example. How reliable such detection eventually will be, needs some testing I suppose.

[CyberTimon]

Thank you! This is very nice and I can see some use in this. Can you try to match the design of the other components in RapidRAW? (Padding, size etc).

Thank you a lot!

As for the associated detection for the delete operations: it currently just checks if the base filename (removing extensions) is identical.

[EnTeQuAk]

Awesome, thanks a lot for your reply. Yeah, the design is far from final. I first need to play around with it more to ensure it's actually useful the way I built it 🙈

As for the associated detection for the delete operations: it currently just checks if the base filename (removing extensions) is identical.

Indeed, I'm currently investigating if it makes sense to make that a bit more explicit and more widely known in other parts of the application.

Right now I'm trying to figure out how to generalize different types of files, e.g, other cameras may have a "XXX + RAW" mode, not sure if JPEG is kinda like the absolute default in the industry.

As I said, it's experimental and will likely take a while to finish. Your feedback is much appreciated :)