Switching to Gnome from KDE

[Dotan Cohen]

On 12/10/06, Constantine Evans <constantine at evanslabs.org> wrote:
> It sounds like you don't have enough RAM, since F-Spot uses quite a bit
> of memory. Have you considered buying more RAM to put in the machine?
> You can buy 512 MB new for around $50 for most types of RAM, and for
> older types, I'm sure there are a variety of people who would be happy
> to give you some.

Actually, I just upgraded from 512MB to GB. The machine feels slower.
There is another thread on that. Maybe I posted it to Kubunu list, if
so, I'll post here as well.

> Also, I'd be interested in knowing your experiences with F-Spot. Are you
> using it for a large number of images?

Yes, about 6000 images currently, and growing. Thats about 10 GB.

> I've been considering using it
> to organise my ~50GB of photographs that are in a mix of Nikon RAW and
> JPEG, interspersed with processed versions of the RAW files in 16-bit
> TIFFs. In my tests of it, it seems to work quite well with JPEGs, but it
> doesn't seem to allow one to edit the files with whatever editors one
> wants (I need to use ufraw, and cinepaint for the 16 bit tiffs).

You would, of course, need to open the file in the editor of your
choice. But adding an "Edit With..." dialog would not be difficult.
Should I enquire about it on the F-spot list for you?

Also, verify first that F-Spot will work with your different RAW formats.

Dotan Cohen

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