Hi Terry,
I did not want to criticize any efforts in any case. I am absolutely thrilled with what the developers and programmers of dartable are doing.
Perhaps I have overlooked a fundamentally different way of working.
The lighttable view, in my opinion, is for viewing, selecting, managing and organizing images.
For this I need a good overview of my images and as much information about them as possible. This is all available in the lighttable view. Sometimes I need a larger view to better judge an image. With the switch to Full Preview (W or F) I can do that, but first I have to press an additional button, but then I lose the overview of the images and can not zoom into the image in this mode.
Everything I would like to have in the lighttable view is available in the darktable view. But this mode is, of course, mainly for image editing. I have basic modules that are loaded automatically. A great feature, but this way each image call via the filmstrip takes its time to show. No problem when I am editing images, but too long when I want to sort images. Of course, I can turn off the automatic loading of modules to speed things up, but then I lose a big advantage that saves me a lot of time during editing.
When I go back to the lighttable view, the edited image remains open in the second monitor, which can sometimes be very confusing. So I would have to remember to switch off the second monitor before switching to lighttable.
I have a similar problem with the position of the history stack module (maybe I’m missing a trick here, too): To copy the processing steps of one image to another, I first have to switch back to lighttable view to get to the history stack module there. Or is there another way to copy the history in the darktable view besides creating a style?