Mono required by ubuntu-desktop

[Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy]

Scott James Remnant wrote:
> Users who own reasonable digital cameras, take a large amount of
> photographs with them, want to sort, catalogue, modify and tweak those
> files, etc. are also likely to have reasonably powerful machines.
> 
> Digital photo management takes a lot of resources; the owner of a Canon
> Eos Digital SLR and a complete lens set is not likely to then try and
> fiddle with those on a 486 with 32MB of RAM.

I own a simple canon elf and I only use it maybe once in 2-3 months. I 
still need to download images from it and somehow manage them. My 
computer is not a 486, but for my photo management purposes it might as 
well be. I can use eog/nautilus for management, but there is no download 
interface in these programs. If there was a nautilus plug-in integrating 
it with gphoto, I would say to hell with gthumb, but there isn't one.

> F-Spot is an application for this group of users; it allows arbitrarily
> massive photo collections to be browsed, tagged, filtered, modified,
> etc.  It's an application for those with reasonable cameras and an
> equivalently reasonable computer to store them on.

Besides the differences in functionality and stability, I see a big 
architectural problem with f-spot. AFAIK, people store their photos 
hierarchically. That is, for example, I would have a folder 2006 with 
subfolder Alaska Vacation with photos from that vacation in it. I can do 
similar stuff with f-spot tags and much more, but f-spot stores all the 
tag info separately from images. All in all if I use f-spot for managing 
my photos, all I have is a folder with my whole photo collection and 
f-spot metainfo storage. The problems are:
1. Once I import my collection into f-spot, I am locked-in to f-spot. 
Without it my collection is completely disorganised
2. As a consequence, if I take my collection (or part of it) to a friend 
on a USB drive I cannot really tell what is where.
3. If I am a professional photographer, my collection could be quite 
large, and once it grows past certain size I might start hitting file 
system performance problems with too many images in a single directory. 
Try to hit /usr/bin with nautilus to see what I mean.