dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 7f350e8c4c Offer the categories in the masks panel
Everything before this was reachable only from an example that writes PPMs.
This is the part a photographer can touch: a list under the subjects, click
one, get a mask layer for every pixel of that category.

## Under the subjects, and the order is the argument

Clicking the photograph is how a local adjustment usually starts, so the
things the model *found* come first. A category is the move you reach for
deliberately — grade the sky, not this one bird — and putting it second says
so without a word of explanation.

Coverage is shown for the same reason a subject's score is: it tells the
photographer whether a category is worth a click before they spend one
finding out.

## Not a new tab, which is what was asked for

A develop tab is derived from `Attribute`, not declared — the tabs exist
because operations claim an attribute, and no amount of Slint adds one. A
seventh attribute would have meant duplicating every adjustment once per
category, and the combinatorics get silly by the third.

Reached through masks instead, a category composes with every adjustment
that already exists, and inherits feather and falloff rather than needing
its own. What was described as "per-category sliders with feather and decay"
is exactly what this is; only the door is different.

## Verified as far as it can be here

Compiles, populates, round-trips, 560 dr-ui tests green. **Not clicked** —
synthetic input is blocked on this setup, so how it looks and feels is
unverified and wants a human at the window.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 14:02:34 +02:00
2026-08-26 10:08:51 +02:00

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.

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