Photo management

[Frank McCormick]

Ulf Rompe wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 28.10.2008, 19:15 -0400 schrieb Frank McCormick:
>> Nice software...I guess...but it required the download of about 15
>> megs to run on this platform. No thanks. I'll survive I guess with
>> gthumb and something I ran across a while back called "fotoxx".
> 
> I don't want to argue, but isn't 15 MB a piece of cake compared to the
> space the photos you will manage with this software will eat up? My
> camera can save 5 raw photos in 15 MB, but then it is just a 6 megapixel
> model. Newer cameras with higher definition will use much more disk
> space.

  I use this kind of software for managing scans...not digital photos
from a camera. The scans rarely exceed 250K...so I could fit about 60 of
them in the size of the download...my HD is also only 30 gigs...peanuts
compared with some. It's 95% full right now. I know, I know...buy a
bigger drive :)


> 
> BTW the big download results from F-Spot being written in C# and thus
> depending on the mono libs. These may be of use for other software like
> Banshee or Tomboy as well.