On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Otto Kekäläinen<[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, for advanced uses like you and me F-Spot is fine, but for normal > home users it is too complicated. Also it has one huge drawback: it > saves all the pictures in a folder structure based on months and > dates. This makes it really hard to browse a F-Spot archive from the > filesystem or from any other image viewer. > > I know tagging is the superior way to file and sort your images, but > the case for normal home (and business) users is that they still like > to think about their image collections as folders. > > F-Spot sucks at browsing images in folders and to get all the benefits > of F-Spot you need to import the images first into the collection. > That is an extra step.. > While it is certainly not ready yet to replace f-spot in karmic, it might be worthwhile to keep an eye on Solang. It is very similar to f-spot but doesn't require photos to be moved and it uses much less resources than f-spot. Additionally a nice benefit is that it plans to manage photos on webbased storages such as flickr and picasa as well, in line with ubuntu's plans to integrate the desktop with the web. Version 0.1 can be found in the Karmic repositories. Wouter -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
