On dim, 2006-07-16 at 16:59 +0200, Lionel Dricot wrote: > My thought : from a picture viewer, I expect :
picture viewer = eog > Last time I tried f-spot, it was really a pain because there was no > way to simply do that f-spot is a photos manager (browse your photos, class them by categories, fix orientation, etc) > ! I had first to import a picture folder. then > all pictures were displayed (I only wanted a given folder) then most > of my pictures were set with in year 1970 (because they are not Right, photos with exif tags are a (small) issue. Maybe they could be placed to a non-dated category? Note that f-spot allow you to set a date on a photo if you want > specially from a digital camera) and so on. I also never fully > understanded a lot of things so I cannot imagine how it would be for What is complicated to you about the f-spot UI? It's pretty clean. You have a grid with photos organized by date, a toolbar with rotations and the view mode to use, a sidebar with categories and information about the selected photo. Suggestions on how to make it easier to understand are probably welcome upstream if you have some :) > regular joe user who only put pictures from his camera to his desktop > and want to display them. Normal user plugs the camera, he gets a dialog asking if he wants to import the photos to his collection, he clicks on ok and he gets the photos imported and added to the f-spot catalog with f-spot open on them > Gthumb is not the best but is still the less worst for me. F-spot is > not, IMHO, in the gnome spirit. I don't want to "import" things. You already do "import" photos, have you tried to plug a camera on Ubuntu? It does use gthumb for that since warty ... > I'dont say that f-spot is bad. I can say that it doesn't meet my needs > at all and I believe (but I may be wrong) that it's not intended as > part of a default installation for a regular user. > > "flickr integration and tags" sounds like geeky features to me. right, but those are probably not the reason why it would be nice to ship anyway. It would be nice to ship because it allow to manage your photos in an efficient way and that's something a part of the user base would be happy to use > "timelining" might be nice but I really believe that most people have > one folder by event and that there's too much mistagged pictures in > the current ecosystem. You can set a tag by event and set a tag on photos from a directory when importing it. Anyway that's not the point, if a photo manager is shipped with the default installation nobody forces you to run it so it should not be an issue, right? :) For my part I think that having eog as default associations for images and shipping f-spot available from the menu for people who want to use it would be good for edgy Cheers, Sebastien Bacher -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop