Photo management

[Bo Grimes]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:27:36PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 16:08 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > Is there a Gnome-based photo management software available for Intrepid.
> > I installed Googles Picasa, but its confusing and for what I want it's
> > overkill.
> 
> f-spot is included by default and I think it will even open
> automatically when you plug in a USB device that came from a camera,
> such as an SD card. f-spot can export to Picasa, Flickr, various other
> web service, photo CDs, etc. 
> http://f-spot.org/
> 
> I think it's a great manager for my needs, but some people don't like
> that it forces its own directory structure. You can install other
> managers from the Ubuntu repositories.

Forgive my laziness, but since this thread was active I thought I'd just
ask.

I decided to try f-spot because of this thread, and when I go to the
graphics sub-menu and click f-spot I get "F-Spot Encountered a Fatal Error,"
then this stuff about "an unhandled exception was thrown: F-Spot cannot find
the Dbus session bus.  Make sure dbus is configured properly or start a new
session for f-spot using "dbus-launch f-spot"

But, if I type f-spot from the command line it runs no problems, and if I
click on the 'run application' icon I added to my panel and type in f-spot
it runs fine.

So I check out the properties of the f-spot launcer in the menu, it says the
command to run it is "f-spot"--the very samew command I type at the bash
prompt and the same command I type into the run application dialogue.

Hmmm...let me try something.  Nope.  That didn't work.  I deleted the menu
entry and then created a new one.  I still get the same error.

Here is the message I get I run it from the command line and it works:

vcg3rd at strider ~ $ f-spot
Starting new FSpot server
/home/vcg3rd/.themes/Shiki-Brave/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:287: error: unexpected
identifier `gradient_shades', expected character `}' Reloading item changed

Here is the full error message when I click on it from the menu:

An unhandled exception was thrown: F-Spot cannot find the Dbus session bus. 
Make sure dbus is configured properly or start a new session for f-spot
using "dbus-launch f-spot"

  at FSpot.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] 
.NET Version: 2.0.50727.42

Assembly Version Information:

NDesk.DBus.Proxies (0.0.0.0)
gconf-sharp (2.20.0.0)
FSpot.Utils (0.0.0.0)
gdk-sharp (2.12.0.0)
gnome-vfs-sharp (2.20.0.0)
Mono.Addins (0.3.0.0)
NDesk.DBus.GLib (1.0.0.0)
NDesk.DBus (1.0.0.0)
System (2.0.0.0)
Mono.Posix (2.0.0.0)
Cms (0.0.0.0)
FSpot.Core (0.0.0.0)
atk-sharp (2.12.0.0)
gtk-sharp (2.12.0.0)
Mono.Addins.Setup (0.3.0.0)
gnome-sharp (2.20.0.0)
glib-sharp (2.12.0.0)
f-spot (0.4.3.1)
mscorlib (2.0.0.0)

Platform Information: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686 unknown GNU/Linux

Distribution Information:

[/etc/debian_version]
lenny/sid


[/etc/lsb-release]
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.1"

Any ideas?  Worse case I just click my 'run application' icon and run it
that way.  that's why I added to my panel, but it's still an interesting
mystery, to me anyway.