On 30 Jan 2013, at 09:07, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30 January 2013 08:18, Michael Hendry <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm having to move everything from my elderly Ubuntu box to a new iMac, and >> have found that many of my favourite applications are available "on the >> other side". >> >> So far, I haven't found anything to replace Shotwell in the Mac environment >> - especially in the handling of tags. >> >> Can anyone advise on a practicable transfer route and suitable destination >> software? > > You could run a virtual Ubuntu machine on the Mac (I presume) and run > Shotwell in there. Or of course just install Ubuntu on the Mac. Then > you could have all your favourite s/w. > > Colin
Thanks, Colin - that's just what I was trying to avoid! I use an iPad as a sheet-music display device for my major retirement hobby - jazz guitar. Using unRealbook, I have a very portable container for thousands of tunes, many with associated backing track files, neatly integrated so that I can practise with the iPad on its own - even at a pinch doing a one-man-band gig! The iPad is not supported well by Ubuntu, and although I can run iTunes in Windows with VirtualBox, it's a clunky solution. My backing-tracks are generated by Band-In-a-Box, which is primarily a Windows program, although there is restricted-capability Mac version. This software doesn't work with Wine or VirtualBox, so I was running it on an elderly laptop, and I'm now running this using Parallels software on the Mac. If I get really stuck I could install a copy of Ubuntu with Parallels, and run it simultaneously with Windows and Mac software, but I'm not sure whether Shotwell running under Ubuntu would link in very well with UFRAW and GIMP on the Mac This switch to Mac was supposed to be such a clean solution… Michael _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
