Re: Opt-Out Request

[Dougie Nisbet <dougie highmoor co uk>]

John Wehmeyer wrote:
> I like f-spot very much, but would *really, really* like an option to 
> not use it as a screensaver.
I'm having the opposite problem. One of the features I'm really 
interested in is the ability to selectively display images in a 
screensaver. In fact it's probably my main use of images and digital 
photography. I often use images to help me learn the botanical names and 
features of plants and trees, and the thing that really drew me to 
f-spot was its ability to easily tag photos in a way that sits nicely 
with the conventions for plant nomenclature 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanical_name). It's what makes it a 
killer app for me.

I used to use a screensaver such as kscreensaver, but now I'm using the 
Gslideshow option in xscreensaver. Its reliant on me correctly naming 
files so that it contains the necessary information so that I can grep 
and link using shell scripts to get the subsets I want to display.

I've tentatively tried using f-spot to act as a screensaver but with 
limited success. It hasn't worried me unduly as I appreciate it's a fast 
evolving package and new versions are released regularly and I'm happy 
to wait. What would be important to me is the ability to display a 
filename (or even better, the tags) when it's acting as a screensaver so 
that I can learn to identify plants.

At the moment when I try to make f-spot my screensaver I get the 
following error when I select f-spot as the screensaver. This is f-spot 
version 0.4.4 and the error occurs on my ubuntu desktop when I go into 
System/Preferences/Screensaver and select f-spot.


An unhandled exception was thrown: no such column: photos.directory_path

 at Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteCommand.GetNextStatement (IntPtr 
pzStart, System.IntPtr& pzTail, System.IntPtr& pStmt) [0x00000]
 at Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteCommand.ExecuteReader (CommandBehavior 
behavior, Boolean want_results, System.Int32& rows_affected) [0x00000]
 at Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteCommand.ExecuteReader (CommandBehavior 
behavior) [0x00000]
 at Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteCommand.ExecuteReader () [0x00000]
 at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) 
Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteCommand:ExecuteReader ()
 at Banshee.Database.QueuedSqliteCommand.Execute () [0x00000]
.NET Version: 2.0.50727.42

Assembly Version Information:

System.Xml (2.0.0.0)
System.Transactions (2.0.0.0)
System.Data (2.0.0.0)
Mono.Data.SqliteClient (2.0.0.0)
gconf-sharp (2.16.0.0)
gdk-sharp (2.10.0.0)
gnome-vfs-sharp (2.16.0.0)
Mono.Addins (0.2.0.0)
NDesk.DBus.GLib (1.0.0.0)
NDesk.DBus (1.0.0.0)
System (2.0.0.0)
Mono.Posix (2.0.0.0)
atk-sharp (2.10.0.0)
gtk-sharp (2.10.0.0)
Mono.Addins.Setup (0.2.0.0)
glib-sharp (2.10.0.0)
gnome-sharp (2.16.0.0)
f-spot (0.4.0.0)
Mono.GetOptions (2.0.0.0)
mscorlib (2.0.0.0)

Platform Information: Linux 2.6.22-14-generic i686 unknown GNU/Linux

Distribution Information:

[/etc/debian_version]
lenny/sid

[/etc/lsb-release]
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.10"