On 3 October 2011 23:02, oliver <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 10:07:42PM +0200, pt wrote: >> 1. f-spot is SSSSSLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWW, while shotwell >> seems very fast in comparison; > [...] > > If you switch off the slide-show it at least becomes more usable...
Actually I can't even *get* there: it crashes on me continuously during imports. I have year-based directories, meaning 2--3 K photos per dir. It was working OK while I was importing every week a few photos, but when it screwed my metadata I wanted to take everything out and when I tried to re-import the fixed files I never managed to finish before a crash occurred. > [...] >> 4. f-spot is no longer being actively developed, and the current >> version is quite buggy, far from usable. > [...] > I thought it just became thrown out from Ubuntu-distri. > Didn't know it'a already a dead project. It is not dead, yet, but its future is quite uncertain: http://old.nabble.com/Being-honest-about-the-development-of-f-spot-to32472621.html The debian maintainer posted about his wish to stop shipping it in distribution releases. It seems some of the developers kinda agreed with that picture. >> 5. last but not least, f-spot is written in C# (or whatever they call >> it) and uses the `mono' libraries, thus I guess one can not easily > > Thats one of the wrongest way to do it? > Picking up M$ crap ideas and port it to the free world. I agree completely. It is on the list of things I don't like about f-spot. Plus, my main computer is a three-year-old Eeepc 900, so I really don't have that much space for libraries used by just *one* application. > But it's also wrong doing it the other way around, isn't it? > > http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/ I'm not sure about that: some people are *forced* to use Windows, and I feel like a bit of fresh air will do them good ;-) I use Linux since 1999 and Debian since 2000, but when I was working in engineering companies I just *had* to use Windows because (at least in italy) everybody was using AutoCAD. But I used it with Gimp, Blender, Inkscape, Scribus, OpenOffice and whatever libre software I could. >> A. I use Geeqie > > Never heard of it before. Give it a try: it is a neat piece of software (offspring of GQview). >> B. I use ExifTool to do more complex mass-tagging, like conditionally >> removing or renaming a specific tag recursively into directories, or >> adding several tags of copyright informations, locations and such. > > Heard of it, but not used it so far. I guess it is pretty much the standard when it comes to metadata management. > I also use Gimp, but it#s a pitty that it does not allow more than 8-Bit > editing so far. But this gap will be changed... just don't know when. > > There are some other pic-edtors which do better in this respect. > Just forgot the names. I could look for them if you are interested. Thanks, I checked Darktable, it has a nice original interface. Still the Gimp is way more mature. > the shotwell-team seems to be interested to make shotwell really becoming > good. > So I think it will become better and better. I'm confident here, and hope I > have the right impressions ...) Same here. It is growing pretty fast, although I still miss many tag-related features of f-spot, namely keyboard-based tagging, multiple-tag select, keyboard-based search bar with logical AND and OR. > At the moment I just want to mention: that shotwell is well supporting > keyboard, makes ist a superior tool to many other picture tools, which do it > rather half-heartedly... Not sure about that: I am having troubles using shotwell because it asks me for too many mouse clicks, but maybe it's just me not yet used to it. > One strange issue is somehow, that it uses "just another programming > language". > vala is not well known. I thought vala was just a C compiler: is shotwell not straight C? > It was emacs that was intende to become a coffee machine ;-) Yeah, it was the next step after having become an operating system: last time I checked emacs was already at that stage ;-) Ciao ciao! Piergi soon-to-be-a-Berliner -- Web: http://traversin.org GNU/Linux user 190604 _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
