Replace F-Spot with Solang?

[Mario Vukelic]

As a happy F-Spot user, let me make a few comments.

On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 05:07 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote:
> i still get complaints of it being slow and the fact that it requires
> you to import all of your photos into one folder is...beyond words.
(...)
> i remember the last answer i got was a prompt and strangely passionate
> "ugh, i hate it". 

I want to provide the opposite anecdotal evidence that I very much like
F-Spot, a few warts not withstanding. I started to use it a few years
ago for my personal photo collection (now approx. two or three thousand
photos) when it stopped making sense to force photos into a directory
hierarchy.

I don't have an ongoing problem with the importing of photos, since new
photos are on the camera's SD card anyway, and of course I want to have
them copied somewhere. Though yes, initially it *was* a big step to give
up on my existing directory hierarchy and surrender to F-Spot, and I do
think that it can be a hurdle, even though I'm personally happy with
having done so.

The other stuff you wrote about Solang certainly looks interesting, but
does it do F-Spot database import? I think if Ubuntu changes a default
application that required some investment from users (such as actually
creating a worthwhile F-Spot database with tags and whatnot), it should
provide the option to switch to the new default, including a data
import.