docs/ had 26 developer documents flat beside the manual, and the two
audiences are very differently sized: most readers want the manual and
the gesture reference, a few want the register, the designs and the
measurements. The manual and gestures.md stay at the top; everything for
someone changing the code moves to docs/dev/, and the two documents that
name their own successors — the v0.1 milestone and the UI-refinement plan
— go to docs/dev/archive/ rather than being deleted, since both are still
cited. docs/README.md is the index, users first.
Every reference follows: code comments, Cargo manifests, the workflows,
the pre-commit hook, the bench and traceability tools (which locate the
repo root by docs/dev/requirements.md now), packaging, the Docker READMEs,
CLAUDE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md and the README. The matrix links one level
deeper and is regenerated. Links out of the moved documents into the tree
gain a level; a link checker over every Markdown file finds none broken.
The recording sampled a red brick wall and moved the sliders by three
units, which at GIF size is a click that does nothing. The scene now
drags the frame cold first and picks a white air conditioner, so the
correction is visible and the picker's being absolute - set from the
photograph, not from where the sliders were - is what the picture
shows. The text says so, and says a blown highlight is refused.
docs/manual/README.md is a tour for a photographer opening DarkRoom for
the first time — one picture per thing, moving where movement is the
point. tools/manual/ is how the pictures are made: drive.py puppeteers the
desktop build on a private Xvfb (launch, click, drag, type, screenshot,
record), scenes.py is each picture as a script, and record.sh runs them
all over a folder and writes the results into docs/manual/media/.
The media is in LFS, with the CI pulls excluding it as they exclude the
fixtures; a screenshot changes wholesale when the interface does.
Nothing in the pictures shows a person, by design: the demo library is
seventy urban and alpine frames, chosen from the catalog's rows that face
detection found nobody in.
The traceability matrix is regenerated here after the rebase that
brought this branch up to master.