Re: Why Shotwell?

[Michael Lissner <mlissner michaeljaylissner com>]

 Hmmm...I like the IDEA of the stack of changes applied to a picture - that's
neat, BUT it locks you in. So, if you ever want to take your photos and use
another editor or organizer (like F-spot), you're kind of hosed - you lose all
the changes you've made to the photos.

That, for me, is enough reason to steer far clear of shotwell. F-spot is a bit
better in this regard with it's "funny" naming convention of new versions of
photos, but at least that gives me a new photo that I can work with if I stop
using f-spot.

Now...if they create an open standard format for this that catches on in other
photo managers, and which is stored in the photos themselves...they might get my
attention.

Mike

Michael Lissner
mlissner michaeljaylissner com
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Pat Suwalski wrote on 06/30/2010 02:03 PM:
> I believe they don't want to include the Mono/C# libraries on the live CD,
> which is limited to 650M.
>
> --Pat
>
> On 30/06/10 04:57 PM, ceed wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been reading recently that Shotwell is going to be the new default
>> photo management tool for Ubuntu (and maybe even in Gnome). I'm an avid
>> F-Spot user but installed Shotwell just to check it out. I can not see
>> any reason why this should replace F-Spot, and when I read about
>> Shotwell as the "future if Linux photo management" there's never
>> anything about why it's should be the future. What is it that F-Spot
>> supposedly is missing making Shotwell a better option? I'm not an
>> applications developer, so I if it's something under the hood justifying
>> this change I would not see it. As for functionality I find F-Spot alone
>> to be a reason for using Gnome over KDE. There's nothing like it one
>> Linux as far as I can see. I'm also worrying that if this change happens
>> F-Spot is going to be left by the wayside. Please do not make that happen.
>>
>>
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