Replace F-Spot with Solang?

[Danny Piccirillo]

Why was Shotwell chosen over Solang? It seems the only motivation for
shotwell is to try Vala. Solang seems to already be in line with what
we need and want. Is there a link to where this decision was made so
we can see the discussion rather than just an announcement? Some
people think that neither solang or shotwell will be ready in time for
maverick, and as much as i'd love to see F-spot replaced sooner, i
wouldn't want to upset users like what happened with empathy (although
i'm sure it wouldn't be close to that bad). Perhaps this should be
held off until Maverick +1?

Also, there were specific reasons as to why Shotwell isn't ready, but
for Solang it was just, yeah this isn't ready either. What
specifically would you like to see in Solang for it to be considered
ready?

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 09:42, Laco Gubík <lacogubik at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> According this article [1], Shotwell is replacing F-spot in Maverick.
> Article says that this was agreed at UDS.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Laco
>
> [1] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/see-ya-f-spot-shotwell-comes-to-ubuntu.html
>
> On 15 May 2010 10:07, Danny Piccirillo <danny.piccirillo at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> If i remember correctly, F-Spot had to undergo some big changes to meet the
>> needs drawn up for Lucid, but i'm still not happy with it, and think it
>> would make more sense to adopt a photo manager that is already in line with
>> our needs. F-spots interface is so much nicer now, but 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've converted many
>> newbies to Ubuntu and F-spot has consistently been a major sore-spot. I
>> always listen before giving my opinions on software with my new converts,
>> and i never have to say anything about F-spot. If they don't complain to me
>> on their own, i'll ask plainly what they think of it, and i remember the
>> last answer i got was a prompt and strangely passionate "ugh, i hate it".
>> All i do is direct them to the alternatives to see which they like most
>> (solang, gThumb, or Shotwell). Now i'm not saying F-spot isn't a decent
>> application. F-spot is solid, but we can do a lot better.
>>
>> Solang is an unfinished product, but looks to be very promising (though i
>> hate to throw around that word). Solang seems to be doing things right, much
>> like PiTiVi and Telepathy, but hopefully without any lack of features. Check
>> this out from their FAQ (http://live.gnome.org/Solang/FAQ):
>>>
>>> Why write yet another photo manager? F-Spot, GThumb, J-Brout, Shotwell,
>>> etc. rock.
>>>
>>> In our opinion none of them integrate well with the desktop. They need you
>>> to explicitly import photos from a directory and any meta-data that you add
>>> (mainly tags) get inserted into their private database. We do not do that
>>> anymore. We use Tracker (http://tracker-project.org/) for these purposes. It
>>> allows us to automatically detect all the photos on your computer and any
>>> meta-data that is added gets inserted into Tracker. So if you tag your
>>> photos in Solang, you can use those tags from any other application on the
>>> desktop (eg., Nautilus), and vice versa.
>>
>> If Solang can mature in time, it might be worth making default in Maverick
>> or Maverick +1. The newest version (old one wasn't stable enough) isn't
>> packaged for debian yet, but hopefully that won't take too long. Bug report
>> for anyone
>> interested: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=579606
>> --
>> .danny
>>
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