gThumb

[Jean Levasseur]

Perhaps, there is Digikam which is really neat, but it's KDE based, so I
would still stick with f-spot as default.  After getting a little love
from devs (that are already doing an awesome job) f-spot will rock!

Le mardi 15 janvier 2008 à 14:10 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan a écrit :
> Blue Marine is one program I've seen recommended for proper handling
> of EXIF data (that's the metadata I was trying to remember).  I was
> looking for an alternative to F-Spot because of the poor EXIF-handling
> at the time. 
> 
> On Jan 15, 2008 1:56 PM, Kevin Fries <kfries at cctus.com> wrote:
>         
>         On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 19:34 +0100, Milan wrote:
>         > Kevin Fries wrote:
>         > > This argument has raged before.  Has anyone thought of
>         maybe a
>         > > compromise... Something much better than GThumb (not hard)
>         but not based 
>         > > on Mono.  Maybe something like Blue Marine?
>         > >
>         > > http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it/
>         > >
>         > > Just a thought.  They already package a DEB file and it is
>         about 30M, 
>         > > not sure how big the other packages are.
>         > >
>         > >
>         > Is Java really better than Mono? Not speaking of needs to
>         stabilize this
>         > development version...
>         
>         
>         I personally don't have a problem with Mono or Java.  Both are
>         excellent 
>         technologies in my book.  Each has advantages and
>         disadvantages like any
>         technology.  But when I last defended Mono and F-Spot, I got
>         jumped like
>         a gang member in the wrong neighborhood.
>         
>         Just trying to show options here.  Looking for solutions to
>         defuse the 
>         argument that erupted last time this was brought up, before
>         the argument
>         erupts again.  Hoping to show that while gThumb is a poor
>         product on its
>         best days (editorial, I know, but face it, its not good), but
>         F-Spot and 
>         Mono are not our only solutions.  There are other programs out
>         there
>         that are of some serious quality.
>         
>         The BM page says that the product is not quite of release
>         quality, but
>         lets be real, its not of a professional release quality.  For
>         the 
>         average consumer, its perfectly stable enough.  I would not
>         want to rely
>         on this if I was a professional photographer until a few bugs
>         were
>         worked out.  But this product has no more bugs than the
>         average FOSS
>         product.
>         
>         BTW, I have just briefly played with Blue Marine, and that is
>         one hell
>         of a program.  The type that really takes a run away from the
>         second
>         rate Windows based graphical tools, and right at the far
>         superior Mac 
>         based one.  It would definitely be a capabilities upgrade from
>         anything
>         in the repos now.  If nothing else, putting that in Multiverse
>         would not
>         be the dumbest idea I heard.
>         
>         --
>         Kevin Fries 
>         Senior Linux Engineer
>         Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
>         A Division of Japan Communications Inc.
>         
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> Mackenzie Morgan
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