I’ll have to bring this up again as this really makes me want to find a better tool.
In my view, Darktable needs a serious look into usability not just to “make it possible” so indeed yes.
Workflow, to me, means that I have to look at collections of very similar photos to see which of them is worth further work. Let’s take portrait work as an example of this: I would much rather have the people in front of my camera act like a herd of cats, with me taking lots of pictures and getting an occasional good result, than force them to put up their best fake smile.
As it is now I have to go into darkroom mode, use my mouse to click back and forth between pictures, and try to give each picture an appropriate number of stars that way. And as the band of pictures move about, the picture I have under my mouse pointer is never the one I chose to look at but instead in the middle. So I have to pick a picture, move my mouse to the middle to grade it and then move the mouse to one of the sides again to choose my next picture to look at. Easily losing track of which picture is what as they’re very similar when seen from afar.
While what I would like to have is to browse around on the lighttable, and have the picture under my mouse pointer blown up on the second screen without even having to click. That way I can use the light table as intended, while still being able to look closely at the pictures as I need to.