Hi Shotwell team. I was a windows user, and I converted myself to linux 6 years ago. Since that, I was very happy with Gnome/Linux, except for photo management. Untill I recently discovered ShotWell !
This project is young but very exciting. Thanks to you all for this great job. It looks to be so dynamic that I decided to import my 8000 photo library in Shotwell. And maybe totaly abandon (at last) Fototime/Fotoalbum and VirtualBox. Like others, I had problems with importation. About an hundred photos were marked as duplicates and not imported, so they were not duplicates in fact. But I read that version 0.8 may fix this. Just have to wait a couple of days. V0.8 will also bring meta data written in files. Good news ! It was a pity it did'nt. My opinion is that the next big enhencement would be a nice "Search" function (on usual metadas : title, subject, keywords, author, camera model, dates, location, ... ) with the possibility to save searches as "virtual events" or "albums" (you have the chance to have an SQLite database !). This will give Shotwell a great advantage to challenge other applications like Digikam, Picasa or Fotoalbum (the best for Windows in my opinion). I have an other advice : keep on photos management with only few useful photo manipulations (rotate, enhence, resize, ...) and give more facilities : - to call external specialized programs. Only one external editor for JPEG is to few. I would like to pick one in a list, depends on what I want to do. - to export to web galleries (I personnaly use Piwigo and Gallery). Go on ! This is a promisefull project and I love it ! Thierry -- View this message in context: http://shotwell.3510.www.nabble.com/So-impatient-tp28152p28152.html Sent from the Shotwell mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
