In no way is Darktable a photo manager. At all. In any way.
Its a raw editor only and the docs are clear about this. To edit some files you have to import them, but importing them is for the sole ourpose of performing raw edits. There's some rudimentary tagging/rating abilities but the sorting capabilities are poor and you cant actually reorganise files on disk.
Theres no way you'd import say 20,000 photos (or in my case about 100,000) and keep a catelogue. You'd have to split it into individual shoots/days to get any kind of performance (thats if importing that many wouldnt crash it, it did previously).
They only grudgingly include a file system browser which is also hobbled.
If Darktable actually included photo management as a first class citizen (by that i simply mean even just a simple file browser like lightroom has) it would probably win this particular software space. But the devs choose to actively work against that functionality so its just another minor free app.
Its a raw editor only and the docs are clear about this. To edit some files you have to import them, but importing them is for the sole ourpose of performing raw edits. There's some rudimentary tagging/rating abilities but the sorting capabilities are poor and you cant actually reorganise files on disk.
Theres no way you'd import say 20,000 photos (or in my case about 100,000) and keep a catelogue. You'd have to split it into individual shoots/days to get any kind of performance (thats if importing that many wouldnt crash it, it did previously).
They only grudgingly include a file system browser which is also hobbled.
If Darktable actually included photo management as a first class citizen (by that i simply mean even just a simple file browser like lightroom has) it would probably win this particular software space. But the devs choose to actively work against that functionality so its just another minor free app.