2011/8/12 Simon Lindgren <[email protected]> > Oops, originally sent this directly to Mauricio... > > fre 2011-08-12 klockan 10:51 -0500 skrev Mauricio Tellez: > > Hi, competition is always good and I think f-spot's developers must pay > > attention to peaple say about shotwell's strenghts and f-spot weakness, > so > > here I go: > > > > Sounds like an unfair f-spot vs shotwell to me :) > That said, f-spot is undermaintained atm. > Well, remember that I want to make f-spot better not shotwell, If I want the oposite, then at shotwell list I woult say: look at the great thinks f-spot has, and look your mistakes! ;-)
> > > > Shotwell strenghts: > > 1. Speed: The thumbnails displays are lighting fast. I can jump to any > part > > of my photo collection and thumbs get displayed almost instantly > > 2. Multiple photo collection: From the command line I can specify which > > collection I want to start. > > f-spot can do this as well, use > $ f-spot --basedir $DB_DIR --photodir $PHOTO_DIR > Thanks for this tip! > > > 3. Export. The facebook plugin works great, I haven't mess with the > others > > but this one works as expected (a must for me) > > 4. Stability. So far, I have not stability issues. > > 5. Change date > > > > F-spot weakness: > > 1. Low Speed: The thumbnails are slow, if I jump to some point oh my > > collection, the thumbnails seem to be regenerated. Or if I use the > window's > > scroll bar to navigate through thumbnails, I have to stop navigation at > some > > point to be able to see the thumbs at that position (again, the thumbs > looks > > empty and after 2 o 3 seconds they appear) > > f-spot uses the system thumbnails cache from which the images get > evicted after a while (this time can be changed). > > Shotwell uses its own thumbnail directory which is in general considered > to be a Very Bad Thing®, but has an advantage in this case. IMO it is > still the wrong way to go, the correct way is to fix the system-wide one > instead. > I follow Josep advice but only the first 2 or 3 "screens" are displayed fast, if I scroll deeper then I get slow thumbnails (by the way I had a intel core 2 quad 2.33ghz with 4gb of ram and my collection is 7,325 photos) > > > 2. No Multiple photo collection. I can at least 2 uses of this: > > a) The Hidden tag hasn't subtags, so if I had a lot of pics there this > I > > had trouble finding something. And, what is the point of a tag named > Hidden > > if It is visible at the tag structure? I have in there some pics of ex > > girlfriends, then I show my actual girlfriend some pics of us, but when > she > > show the "hidden" tag, she demand to see inside! so hidden do not > actually > > hide lol > > Tags are tags, not directories, so you can have many of them on each > photo. > Organize the photos by your normal tags and then tag the ones you don't > want to be shown normally with the Hidden tag. If you fear your > girlfriend is going to find the pics then you better remove them from > your harddrive altogether ;) > > > b) I want to share f-spot with another person and can't create another > > account for him > > I believe this is a problem with shotwell too, is it not? > Not really, I solve this using multiple photo collections, but thanks to your tip about this, now I can do this with f-spot to :-) > > > 3. Export plugins. I use a lot smugmug and facebook to share my photos, > but > > suddenly they both stop working (well there is now the smugmug redux), > but > > today the facebook plugin isn't working. > > This is a weak point, and a symptom of the undermaintained-ness of > f-spot (since I'm sure they worked at one point). > > > 4. Stability. I had several issues here. 1 of 3 times, when I import some > > pics, f-spot hangs, then I retry the import and everything goes fine. > Same > > for export to a > > folder. Also, sometimes the thumbs do not show, so I have to double click > a > > empty thumbnail to see at what photo I'm positioned. > > It's possible that there was an error when generating the thumb, or it > might be a bug... I have noticed that there seems to be a race or some > other bug in the thumbnail loading which makes f-spot stop updating the > ui. > > > 5. The date change isn't working for me. I went vacation with my family > and > > my sister's camara has the wrong date (something at 1950), when I > imported > > this photos, f-spot sorted like the year was 2050, then I try to change > the > > date, but with not luck > > > > I'm using f-spot for a couple of years and was very happy with it, but I > > must admit that the weakness I already mention are pissing me off from a > > months ago, so I hope this weakness change to strengths soon! > > > > Unless I'm mistaken, you've better not change to shotwell, it seems to > be (almost) as bad! ;) > > -- > Simon Lindgren > > _______________________________________________ > f-spot-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list > -- Mauricio Tellez
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