I think that shotwell is a great tool. The problem is that it doesn't do the same thing that Picasa does. I have a situation of thousands of already organized phtotos in addition to some unorganized photos distributed between multiple users. Picasa allows me to track all of these and quickly locate particular photos WITHOUT disturbing their current locations OR creating duplicate photos. Thus the two tools are not equivalent. When there is a choice between GPL and proprietary, I will ALWAYS choose GPL. Proprietary apps are a pain in the butt in many ways. They tend to be binary blobs that are useless when support expires or when the company gets bought or bust or whatever. Or when they just want you to fork out for a new version. But I will gladly pay for proprietary when there are no GPL equivalents and this is the case with Picasa which is proprietary even though it is free. Other examples are MS codecs via Fluendo, a DVD player via Fluendo, the Nero burner program for BluRay (latest K3B still sucks with BluRay), and Quasar for POS/inventory tracking. Until recently I have been using PMFax, but am looking at shifting to efax-gtk and hoping it fills my needs. I would LOVE to see GPL options for ALL of my software needs, but at this point they are simply not there. If GPL meets your software needs like it does for many people, then bully for you. I am all for that. But for many of us, that point in time has not yet arrived and it a proprietary app installs cleanly on Linux and does what I need it to do, which Picasa does, I am not going to complain about whats under the hood. For me, who has been using Linux exclusively for over ten years now, there are still functions which are not satisfied by GPL software. I am well aware that there are many who consider that statement to be about as blasphemous as it gets, but for me, thats the reality and I am not going to pretend otherwise. - George
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