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.<br><br>They have a PPA to try it with <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Eyorba/+archive/ppa">https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa</a><br> <br>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. <br><br>Give it a try, <br> Bryan<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Danny Piccirillo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danny.piccirillo@ubuntu.com">danny.piccirillo@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 <a href="http://santanu-sinha.blogspot.com/2009/06/solang.html" target="_blank">Solang</a> and <a href="http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/" target="_blank">Shotwell</a> 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. <div> <div><ul><li>A major issue with F-Spot that Solang doesn't have is that you have to move images to import them into the library. </li><li>F-Spot is much more resource intensive than Solang</li></ul><div>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: </div> <ul><li>Quickly viewing images by folder [currently handled by EOG]</li><ul><li>Solang and F-Spot both have view-modes but still require importing the image. Shotwell might not. </li></ul><li>Editing images without importing (Shotwell does this)</li> <ul><li>Rotating [currently handled by EOG]</li><li>Red-eye removal [currently handled by GIMP]</li><li>Cropping [currently handled by GIMP]</li><li>optional: Annotating (like making lolcat) [currently handled by GIMP]</li> <li>optional: Painting on it [currently handled by GIMP]</li></ul></ul><div><div>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. </div> <div><br></div><div>Please look into both Solang and Shotwell and post your thoughts. </div><div>Thanks! </div><div><br></div>-- <br>.danny<br><br>☮♥Ⓐ - <a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/danny.piccirillo" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/profiles/danny.piccirillo</a><br> </div></div> </div> <br>--<br> ubuntu-desktop mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br>