Gthumb as default image viewer?

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Lainaus Alex Launi <alex.launi at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Otto Kekäläinen <otto at sange.fi> wrote:
>> From my experiences I'd say that importing digital images to your
>> computer and managing them is as common as using e-mail or playing
>> music on the computer, and Ubuntu should handle those tasks by default
>> as well as possible. That is not the case at the moment..
>>
>
> Not really, f-spot does this fantastically.


Well, for advanced uses like you and me F-Spot is fine, but for normal  
home users it is too complicated. Also it has one huge drawback: it  
saves all the pictures in a folder structure based on months and  
dates. This makes it really hard to browse a F-Spot archive from the  
filesystem or from any other image viewer.

I know tagging is the superior way to file and sort your images, but  
the case for normal home (and business) users is that they still like  
to think about their image collections as folders.

F-Spot sucks at browsing images in folders and to get all the benefits  
of F-Spot you need to import the images first into the collection.  
That is an extra step..

Anyway at current Ubuntu defaults, the Eye of Gnome opens all  
jpg-images, and that is not good. Gthumb would be much better. Neither  
the the EOG nor F-Spot (in single image viewing mode) allows for any  
other functions than rotation. Cropping, resizing etc is missing - but  
can can be found in Gthumb. That is features you can actually find  
even in the default Windows Vista file browser, so I think this should  
really get some attention.



Can anybody answer to my original question: who makes the decision  
about this and to who should I present my case? Some body at Gnome?





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Otto Kekäläinen
www.sange.fi