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Posted by Laurent Perraut on 2023-07-08.
In my “own” darktable version 3.8.2, I implemented this functionality to speed-up my tag editing workflow. By creating or editing a text tag, you need to use your keyboard anyway. Using “Enter” to save and close the dialog is more convinient. It is also the “counterpart” of the “Esc” key that is already active (I didn’t tested all dialogs…).
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I saw that someone has raised the same request at darktable (https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/issues/14787 ) and that triggered me because I miss this functionality in Ansel - now my main raw editor.
Any opinion on this quite cosmetic functionality? In case of a positive response I could create a PR (my first one!)…