CD image size recovery suggestions

[Tristan Wibberley]

Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 02:48:49AM +0100, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
>> Colin Watson wrote:
>>> Various people suggested removing gthumb, since f-spot now replaces it
>>> (except for some cases where eog fills the gap). This seems potentially
>>> controversial, but might be reasonable.
>> Neither f-spot nor eog are very good for printing photos - even gthumb 
>> is not as good as the Windows XP wizard, but it does at least make photo 
>> printing tasks possible for somebody without oodles of DTP skill. Remind 
>> me why f-spot features are needed out of the box - I understand that 
>> there are some professional photographers that need it to catalogue huge 
>> photo sets, is that the only demographic?
> 
> Oh, there are lots of non-professional people with large photo sets. My
> parents use Picasa on Windows for keeping track of their photos (my
> dad's a decent amateur photographer, but I think it's mostly
> family/holiday snaps), and gthumb/eog would be a big step backwards for
> them. f-spot seems like it has the potential to be a good free
> replacement.

Give it a printing wizard as good as Windows XP and I'll be a *huge* 
advocate for keeping it in. But without that, its just a cataloguing 
program for a specialist demographic.

-- 
Tristan Wibberley - "it" is the preferred noun of an abated intellect.

These opinions are my own, and do not reflect those of my employer.