Hmmm...I like the IDEA of the stack of changes applied to a picture - that's neat, BUT it locks you in. So, if you ever want to take your photos and use another editor or organizer (like F-spot), you're kind of hosed - you lose all the changes you've made to the photos.
That, for me, is enough reason to steer far clear of shotwell. F-spot is a bit better in this regard with it's "funny" naming convention of new versions of photos, but at least that gives me a new photo that I can work with if I stop using f-spot. Now...if they create an open standard format for this that catches on in other photo managers, and which is stored in the photos themselves...they might get my attention. Mike Michael Lissner [email protected] 909-576-4123 Pat Suwalski wrote on 06/30/2010 02:03 PM: > I believe they don't want to include the Mono/C# libraries on the live CD, > which is limited to 650M. > > --Pat > > On 30/06/10 04:57 PM, ceed 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. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > f-spot-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list _______________________________________________ f-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
