On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:57 PM, ceed <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been reading recently that Shotwell is going to be the new default > photo management tool for Ubuntu (and maybe even in Gnome). I'm an avid > F-Spot user but installed Shotwell just to check it out. I can not see any > reason why this should replace F-Spot, and when I read about Shotwell as the > "future if Linux photo management" there's never anything about why it's > should be the future. What is it that F-Spot supposedly is missing making > Shotwell a better option? I'm not an applications developer, so I if it's > something under the hood justifying this change I would not see it. As for > functionality I find F-Spot alone to be a reason for using Gnome over KDE. > There's nothing like it one Linux as far as I can see. I'm also worrying > that if this change happens F-Spot is going to be left by the wayside. > Please do not make that happen.
The F-Spot list is a bit of an odd place to ask this question ;) Shotwell is definitely a young piece of software, so I agree that it's strange everyone is immediately jumping to it. Still, keep in mind it is developing at a fast pace. The latest version (0.6) was released just a few days ago with a bunch of new features, so if you're basing you assessment on 0.5* you may want to play with it again. You may also find this informative: http://gnomejournal.org/article/99/shotwell-photo-manager One of my favourite things is its really smart non-destructive editing. It maintains the original in a cute, magical, invisible and optimized fashion one never needs to think about, with proper Undo / Redo springing from there. Really the big thing holding me off Shotwell right now is that it lacks F-Spot's neat hierarchical tags feature, which has a special place in my heart. It goes for the more conventional system where there are a bunch of hard-coded methods for cataloguing organizing photos and tags are just complementary meta-data. There's also its lack of RAW+Jpeg support. Shotwell's non-destructive editing precludes the need for Versions like F-Spot, so there's an issue when I have two images that honestly come from different roots but are, as far as a human is concerned, the same thing. It will never lose the original, but it also does nothing for me if I do something really invasive to a photo and want to call that a new version instead of just a touch-up. The first photo manager with graphical image histories (detailed and hierarchical instead of just a 1D list of versions with funny names!), smoothly represented in the image browser (maybe stacks of thumbnails?), will win my heart for good. Dylan _______________________________________________ f-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
