A long, long time ago Yorba ported Shotwell to OSX and Windows. The Windows version was crippled but functional. The OSX version was in worse shape; I wouldn't even call it usable. We felt there was little demand for Shotwell outside of the GNOME desktop and abandoned the ports. My current estimate is that it would be quite an undertaking to port Shotwell today (which is a much larger program now).
Shotwell doesn't write metadata to any RAW files today. Exiv2, the photo metadata it relies on, does support writing to NEF (as well as a handful of other RAW formats), and it's something we hope to offer in the future: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2622 As far as migrating Shotwell into your new machine, yes, you can copy the database and thumbnails as you've mentioned. You'll need to copy the photo files into their exact location. If they're stored in your home directory, that means your home directory name must be exactly the same. -- Jim On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Joseph Bylund <[email protected]> wrote: So I understand from the list that shotwell has at times in the past worked on OSX, how much of an undertaking would it be to get it working on OSX again (with possibly a restricted set of abilities)? -Joe _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
