Shotwell in Lucid

[rikona]

Hello Tony,

Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 2:09:21 PM, Tony wrote:

TP> On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 14:02 -0700, rikona wrote:
>> Running Lucid. Noticed Shotwell will be the default photo mgr in new
>> releases - also looks pretty good, so thought I'd get a head start
>> learning it. The Shotwell version in the repos is quite old [0.5].
>> There is a newer backport in a PPA that states NOT to use it because
>> it is "guaranteed to break your computer". Hmmm...
>> 
>> Has anyone running Lucid used a later version without 'breaking the
>> computer'? If so, where was it?
>> 
>> The PPA also backports several other pkgs - is this the reason it
>> breaks stuff?
>> 
>> If I do try the gamble, and it breaks stuff, how can I recover to
>> where I was?
>> 
>> Any other ideas to get a later version?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 

TP> I've been running Shotwell since Lucid where I think it was offered to
TP> try out as it was to be replacing F-Spot (which I never used) as the
TP> default photo organiser in later releases.  

TP> It works OK in Maverick and Natty. The version in Lucid ran OK as
TP> well so I see no reason why you need an updated version even if it
TP> is 'quite old'.

Fewer bugs/crashes, more formats, better tagging that I can bring
along to a later version for the 7500 pix I will tag, etc...

Worth a bit of looking IMHO. 

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 rikona