OM Workspace

What works

Photo editing:

• Photo library browsing.
• RAW processing (including GPU use).
• Export of the processed RAW to tiff or jpeg via Photo->Launch Registered Application (requires a separate photo/editor/viewer: IrfanViewer).
• GPU acceleration (for cards with 2G+ of memory, only Nvidia was tested).

What does not

Connectivity related functions and batch functions:

• The normal batch-based export RAW doesn't work, but export via Launch Registered Application can work around that.
• Camera USB communications (I don't think Wine supports all aspects of USB).
• Wifi connectivity
• AI denoiser, Workspace recognises my GTX 1650 Super, can use it for RAW processing, but reports that the required OS, GPU, GPU RAM, or cuda is missing.  This might  be a networking issues as the denoiser needs to be downloaded by the application.

Workarounds

Although the normal batch-export from RAW does not work, the application can pass a processed RAW as a tif or jpg to an external viewer/editor.  I've only test this with the IrfanView viewer.

Install an external viewer and install it in the same instance of wine as OM Workspace, steps as follows:

Download a 64bit windows version of https://www.irfanview.com/

% WINEPREFIX=~/.wine64_OMW wine ~/Downloads/iview459_x64_setup.exe

Don't change any defaults.

Workspace export of RAW to IrfanView should now be useable:

% WINEPREFIX=~/.wine64_OMW wine64 ~/.wine64_OMW/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/OMDS/OM\ Workspace/OM\ Workspace.exe

Do NOT set-up IrfanView as a Registered Application under OM Workspace Tools. Select a RAW image. Select Photos->Launch Registered Application. After a processing spinner, IrfanView should launch with a processed tif.

If you do register IrfanView and select 8-bit transfer, then Photos->Launch Registered Application will launch IrfanView with a processed jpeg.

What was not tested

Anything related to communicating with a camera.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

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