On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 10:12 +0100, Rick Spencer wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 12:04 -0400, Andrew SB wrote: > > I think you touch on the real issue here. It's not so much a problem > > with viewing photos, as we all have noted there are already two > > options, EOG when you are in a folder and F-Spot for collections. The > > real problem is that those programs aren't image editors and the GIMP > > is a tool for advanced users. GThumb doesn't solve this problem > > either. > We have been discussing this on the desktop team as well. I would love > to see eog support cropping and red-eye removal (it already rotates). I > think that this, along with f-spot, would cover the key user scenarios. > > I think that f-spot is a good program, and a lot of users do manage > large photo libraries, and it is appropriately tuned for those users in > those scenarios. > > Cheers, Rick
I think it's worth mentioning again, but slightly off-topic, that we really need in F-Spot, to uncheck "Copy files to the Photos folder" as a default setting in the Import dialog. This assumes you want your photos in said folder, in your home directory, and one must remember *each time* one imports photos, to uncheck this box if you choose your photos to be in a different destination. Imagine for the first time running F-spot, and importing your collection of 30,000 photos you store on an external drive, and not noticing this setting. Hours later, when the file copy completes, your home directory now has no free space. Now imagine each time you import more photos, you forget to uncheck this setting, then must manually delete the photos it copied over. This to me is a terrible feature of F-spot, which is otherwise a very decent photo organizer.
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