Re: f-spot status in ubuntu dapper

["Thomas Van Machelen" <thomas vanmachelen gmail com>]

Hi Sebastien,

Some of the things you request are already in current cvs head.
Building f-spot from cvs (or the latest release) is not difficult at
all on ubuntu dapper, so i suggest you give it a go, instructions
here:
http://f-spot.org/How_To_Build_from_CVS

2006/10/25, Sébastien Barthélemy <Sebastien Barthelemy crans org>:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I finally decided to take the time to manage my pictures properly, and,
> as I'm starting to use ubuntu dapper, f-spot seems to be the software I
> need.
>
> However, as there is no documentation with it (f-spot 0.1.11 in ubuntu
> dapper), I can can only refer to the website one, and I don't know what
> is available in 0.1.11 and what is 0.2.2-only.
> I have a few questions about that:
>
> 1. are the metadata located in the picture ? I checked the "Write
> metadata in the picture" box, but when I rename any picture from ~/Photo
> and import it again, f-spot looses its tags and comment. Thus I think I
> missed something.

Metadata is written in the picture in the version you have,  current
cvs head however is able to import those metadata back in the form of
tags.

> 1bis. If the metadata are not yet stored in the picture with XMP, it
> seems to be upcoming, can I tag my old picture now and put the tags on
> XMP later ?

Yes (if i understand you correctly)

>  * tagging with hierarchic tags is great, but I expected more
> sophisticated search filters to really make use of it (eg: search all
> people that are not Nina nor Robert, etc.)

Again, current cvs and the latest release include a new searching
mechanism which allows you to create queries that are a lot more
specific than the one you could create before.

Hope you will enjoy using F-spot.

Best Regards,
Thomas