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. <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 15, 2008 1:56 PM, Kevin Fries <<a href="mailto:kfries@cctus.com">kfries@cctus.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d"> 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? > > > > <a href="http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it/" target="_blank">http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it/</a> > > > > 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... </div>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. <div class="Ih2E3d"> -- Kevin Fries Senior Linux Engineer Computer and Communications Technology, Inc A Division of Japan Communications Inc. -- </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com"> Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss </a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Mackenzie Morgan Linux User #432169 ACM Member #3445683 <a href="http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com">http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com </a> <-my blog of Ubuntu stuff apt-get moo