Solang or Shotwell vs. F-Spot for Lucid

[Bryan Quigley]

I just tried out Shotwell and found it very user friendly, fast, and doesn't
force the user to reorganize their existing photo collection.  It has a
simple but modern look to it.

They have a PPA to try it with
https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa<https://launchpad.net/%7Eyorba/+archive/ppa>

It is 1405 Kb with libgee .50 (at 369 kb) so totals under 2 Mb :).  For me,
it doesn't support many features of gThumb (or as many image types), but it
makes up for it in ease of use/organization.

Give it a try,
Bryan


On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Danny Piccirillo <
danny.piccirillo at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Before too much effort is invested into making F-Spot good enough to meet
> all of the needs outlined at the UDS Default App Selection session, i
> thought i should bring up Solang<http://santanu-sinha.blogspot.com/2009/06/solang.html>and
> Shotwell <http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/> to see if it might be worth
> including instead of F-Spot in Lucid, or if it's too late, in Lucid +1.
> GTumb has been discussed, but it doesn't seem to deliver the goods. Solang
> is new, yet it's developed quickly and is showing a lot of promise. Shotwell
> might also be a contender worth discussing, but i am unfamiliar with it.
> Hopefully someone else has some insights as to how Shotwell compares to
> Solang and F-Spot.
>
>    - A major issue with F-Spot that Solang doesn't have is that you have
>    to move images to import them into the library.
>    - F-Spot is much more resource intensive than Solang
>
> Solang, Shotwell, and F-Spot are all fine image managers/organizers, but
> the current plan is to work on F-Spot to get it to meet the following
> needs:
>
>    - Quickly viewing images by folder [currently handled by EOG]
>       - Solang and F-Spot both have view-modes but still require importing
>       the image. Shotwell might not.
>    - Editing images without importing (Shotwell does this)
>       - Rotating [currently handled by EOG]
>       - Red-eye removal [currently handled by GIMP]
>       - Cropping [currently handled by GIMP]
>       - optional: Annotating (like making lolcat) [currently handled by
>       GIMP]
>       - optional: Painting on it [currently handled by GIMP]
>
> Personally, the fact that F-Spot requires moving/copying image files to
> import the pictures has been enough to keep me from using it. Although the
> interface has been cleaned up, it just feels heavy. It's worth reconsidering
> how much work should be put in to F-Spot when other projects seem to be
> progressing faster. If this much work is going to be invested as it is, we
> should consider whether it might be better to focus on Solang instead.
> Shotwell might already meet many of these needs, and need significantly less
> work.
>
> Please look into both Solang and Shotwell and post your thoughts.
> Thanks!
>
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