ansel

I found Darktable absolutely amazing, although the learning curve is incredibly steep. Some ex-maintainers hated the direction of Darktable and thus made their own fork, namely https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel

I don't know, but it's interesting to see a bunch of people stop developing features and fix bugs straight for 4 years. https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel/issues

https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel there's also a fork to play with

Don't hold your breath for Darktable; the devs are hellbent on being as user-hostile as possible. It needs to be forked or replaced to make any progress. Somebody forked it and was trying to do just that; I don't know the status of that project. https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel

Since no one mentioned it yet. There is a darktable fork called ansel https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel that tries to remove bloat and make darktable more user friendly. It's rather opinionated and done by Aurélien Pierre. For those interested in the why https://ansel.photos/en/news/darktable-dans-le-mur-au-ralent... there is also a YouTube video with strong language. There is an appimage so I recommend people to at least try it.

Just try Ansel. I saw this topic a while ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38390914 I am only familiar with his YouTube, and then this topic. https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel Here are his examples. It seems 1:1 compatible when I switched.

FWIW, here is the recent merged pull requests from darktable: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/pulls?q=is%3Apr+i... At the moment, this is about a week's work by eight authors. Others cycle/in out, of course -- this is a spot sample. They range from bugfixes to performance improvements to documentation to translation work. All what one would hope for in a software project headed to its bi-annual release next month. There are many ways to develop, and it may be a bit cruel to compare a one-man show to a long-term international collaboration. But here are the recently merged pull requests from the software which is posted about in the blog post: https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel/pulls?q=is%3Apr+i... On the first page, I see about five authors offering PR's over the course of all of 2023 -- a much slower pace of community

Did you see the OS Support section in the README [0]? I tried for about 15 minutes and didn't get it to build. And even if it did, it would probably not be stable enough to use for anything productively. [0] https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel#os-support

wow, that README is bitter https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel

> Mac OS support is not active, the main reason is only 4% of the Darktable user base runs it while the continuous integration bot for Mac OS needs weekly maintenance (for breaking unexpectedly). It may or may not work, but if it doesn't, I don't own a Mac box to have a look, so don't expect anything. Mac OS is anyway not playing nice with Open-Source, having deprecated OpenCL and all. Source: https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel/blob/master/READM...

If you're using nix, I was able to make a build from the darktable derivation[0] modified to use fetchgit (since he hasn't made a github Release since December) and `s/darktable/ansel/g`. src = fetchgit { url = "https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel.git"; rev = "f7669af89a71882ebad15982d698b8df7e6c6ce8"; sha256 = "sha256-FI6dKUrmtTG7DIV0MmY6XdqlUpqdt7boKuXKU6CywjA="; fetchSubmodules = true; }; [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixpkgs-unstable/pkgs/...