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Collections could be made and filled and never reorganised. Nesting had a drag; un-nesting had nothing, in either direction — "All photographs" refused every drop, which is right for a photograph and wrong for a collection, which has a top level to be returned to. So a collection put inside another was in there permanently. Right-click deleted an *empty* collection outright and refused otherwise, which is wrong in both directions at once: destructive with no confirmation, and no way at all to delete a collection that held anything without emptying it by hand, child by child. And a photograph could only leave the collection the grid was scoped to, since that is the only one a button in the header can name — the cell's badge says a photograph is in three collections and never which three. Three ways in, one vocabulary: **Hold a row.** The tree is inside a Flickable, which claims any drag beginning inside it, so with a finger a drag on a row is a scroll until something says otherwise. The hold is that something. It lifts the row — drawn before anything moves, so the gesture says it has been understood — and then what the user does decides which of two things they meant: move, and it is a rearrangement; let go, and it is the row menu. The same fork the grid already uses to tell hold-to-select from drag-to-file. `decide_release` is that fork, and it is tested, because getting it wrong one way puts a sheet over every tidied tree and the other way makes the menu unreachable by touch. **The row menu.** Rename, new collection inside, move to top level, keep offline, delete. Deleting asks once when there is anything to lose and says what survives: the photographs stay in the library, and nested collections move up rather than going with it — which is what the catalog does, and what a user would never assume. An empty collection goes on the first press, because a dialogue about losing nothing is how people learn to dismiss dialogues. **"Collections…" on a selection.** Every collection the selection is filed in, each with a count — "3 of 40", so nobody takes forty photographs out of a collection thirty-seven were never in — and a way out of any of them without navigating there first. The long press used to open the offline question by itself. That question is one item in this menu now: there is one hold per row, and while it was spent on a single action nothing else the tree can do had a touch route at all. Nothing is lost — the tray on the row keeps its tap, and the question gains a full-width control in place of a 30px icon in a row shorter than the touch minimum. The row-press handler moves to `collections_ui` with the rest of what a collection row does; it lived in `library_ui` only because it opened that prompt.
DarkRoom
A cross-platform, non-destructive RAW photo editor for Linux and Android.
Status: 0.9.0, and no longer a spike. A library opens, culls, develops and exports on both platforms, across eight tagged releases. What is not built is written down rather than merely absent — see docs/outstanding.md for the requirements that have no implementation and why, and docs/technical-debt.md for the compromises that were chosen.
Documentation
| Document | Contents |
|---|---|
| CONTRIBUTING.md | How to land a first change without reading the rest |
| requirements.md | What the software must do — 179 numbered requirements |
| architecture.md | How it is built — crates, GPU pipeline, data model, sync |
| technical-debt.md | Compromises taken deliberately, each with the condition that retires it |
| outstanding.md | What is not built, and whether that is a decision or a gap |
| code-health.md | What a contribution costs, per seam, measured |
| traceability.md | Generated: which requirement is claimed by which file |
| faces.md | Face detection and identity — the models, the licence problem, and what S14 measured |
Building
Desktop:
cargo run -p darkroom-desktop
Android (containerised toolchain, see docker/android):
./docker/android/build.sh cargo ndk -t arm64-v8a build --release
Git LFS is required for the model weights, and the toolchain pins itself. CONTRIBUTING.md has the details and the four commands CI will run against what you send.
Current state
Working. A catalog over a local folder, a Nextcloud account, or a folder a
sync client keeps in virtual-files mode — where a placeholder is treated as the
photograph rather than as a one-byte file. A virtualised library grid with a
capture-time timeline, ratings, labels, keywords, collections and a trash that
survives a crash mid-operation. Card ingest. Face detection and identity, with
the index syncing between devices. A develop pipeline of fifteen declared
operations fused into a single compute dispatch, plus the neighbourhood
operations that cannot be — clarity, texture, capture sharpening, noise
reduction, lens correction, spectral film simulation. Crop, straighten, spot
removal, gradient and subject-segmentation masks, named presets, and a
generated panel that no operation in ui/ is allowed to name. Export to JPEG,
PNG and 8- or 16-bit TIFF with resize and output sharpening.
The zero-copy display path works on desktop. The compute pass writes a texture that Slint composites directly, which is what ARCH §6.1 requires; the readback it forbids costs 96% of frame time at 4K, and
cargo run -p dr-gpu --example bench --features readback
still reproduces that measurement. The one exception is the Android develop view, which reads the frame back through the CPU because zero-copy there needs wgpu's Vulkan swapchain, and that tears a portrait window on a tablet whose panel is mounted landscape. It is debt, not a revision of the rule: the reasoning, the on-device measurements that forced it, and the three separate things any one of which would remove it are in technical-debt.md TD-1.
Not built. Plugins, compare and survey culling, focus peaking, burst grouping, AI denoise, tiled and progressive rendering, and most of the Android platform integration beyond running. The performance targets in §4.1 are unverified rather than unmet — the per-commit benchmark suite §8 requires does not exist, so nothing fails a build on a regression. docs/outstanding.md is the list, with the reasoning.
Licence
GPL-3.0-or-later.