f-spot, gthumb and digikam -- for "grandma user"

[Александр Горлов]

Hello All

I absolutly agree with this message. I migrate from Windows about half of
year ago and started use 8.04.1 then migtared to 8.10.  And from my point of
view gthumb more suitable for using as photo manager. I remove f-spot and
install gThumb. Regarding digicam I would like to add my 2 cents. If I not
mistake this is a part of KDE product. I don't have any objections agains
KDE, but in case ann user using Ubuntu and GNOME install a set of additional
libraries and packages only for one application is not good way. Best way,
(i don insist on this point) but  using GNOME software in GNOME desktop?
otherwise user will have zoo on his/her computer and all of this packages
should be supported then additional traffic will required. So my opinion is
gThumb should be add as default photo manager.

2008/12/9 H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com>

> Hello,
>
> Just wanted to put this opinion out in the open for comments.
>
> In Ubuntu (Hardy), it appears that even though f-spot is the intended
> default photo manager, gthumb appears to be more appropriate for a
> novice user who is not computer literate and is learning his way around
> files and folders.
>
> gthumb maintains the file and folder structure, allows a destination
> folder and has the convenient interface to delete photos upon import
> from the camera. And if a user wanted to browse to his photos from
> Nautilius, it is quite straightforward since the directory structure is
> already known while importing photos. I think gthumb also allows tagging
> (categories?) so searching by tags should not be a problem.
>
> f-spot has this nifty feature of showing photos based on their time. But
> it does not allow a folder structure and once the photos are imported in
> to it, the user more or less cannot find a group of photos from Nautilus
> -- since all the photos are bunched up in the destination folder in
> f-spot (Photos by default).
>
> digikam is a different beast. It is quite nifty to be used by a computer
> savvy person and has features that are available in both the above two
> applications. In any case, it might be too much works to get familiar
> with by a beginner.
>
> I personally would perhaps like digikam. But for a novice user, who is
> just finding his way around files and folders and is not going to be a
> geek by any standard, gthumb appears to be the best choice so far.
>
> Feel free to give other insights regarding this.
>
> Regards.
>
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Thanks

Alex
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