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maybe it's time to revisit it; the last interaction I had with it ran into some significant usability issues (terrible contrast and tiny, tiny controls) which went casually dismissed when I brought it up with the devs. at the time I wrote it off as one more user-hostile OSS project.

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I'm a regular user of Darktable for several years and I wouldn't call it a 'user-hostile' project, but the impossibly tiny controls for some functions is frustrating. Maybe they just need more UX experts to pitch in and help improve the product? This is certainly a common theme with FOSS.

Overall I get excellent results with the software, I like it and I'm pretty quick in my workflow, but those little triangles you have to right-click on (e.g. to adjust the exposure or black point) take me multiple tries. Every. Single. Time! My fine motor skill is great. And I'm using a good quality wired mouse because I like the precision.

Software designed in such a shitty fashion as to require special hardware to use it in 2015.

I tried to pitch in, and my input was summarily rejected.

I will have another look too, on fedora 22 and 23 the 1.6 version segfaults every time when opening files from a removable drive.

now that they are on gtk3, it will get a lot easier to get the ui styling they want. in fact, based on irc conversations they seem to be moving forward with the css theming pretty quickly.

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