Rediseño

Between January 2022 and March 2026, Ansel landed 297 non-merge commits regarding the lighttable grid, its thumbnails, and their rendering pipeline and caching. I tried to make do with the scruffy Darktable lighttable code, only degreased, for as long as I could but unfortunately, it was pure technical debt and it was painfully slow.

Indeed, Darktable “manages” the crappiness of its lighttable by reducing its size: the left and right side panels take a lot of display surface, which leaves even less area for the lighttable to repaint. Since Ansel removed the right side panel, merging its content with the left one and the global menu, there was more surface to paint, more CPU work to do, and the terrible design of the lighttable became all the more harmful.

Ansel hereda de Darktable su estructura de base de datos: los historiales de edición no destructiva se guardan por imagen en una base de datos SQLite, junto con metadatos y otros datos definidos por el usuario. Hacer que la base de datos reconozca nuevas imágenes se realiza a través de la “importación” de imágenes desde un disco o tarjeta de memoria. Ahí es donde entra en juego la herramienta de importación.