Re: f-spot good enough for 22k+ photos?

[Michael Lissner <mlissner michaeljaylissner com>]

Yeah, I'll second this. The thumbnail creation process is a real pain
point for me, as I usually want to go from folder-selection to imported
photos as quickly as possible. I'd rather have thumbnails generated when
they're needed, on the fly, rather than all in advance.

Michael Lissner
mlissner michaeljaylissner com
909-576-4123


Robert Latest wrote on 05/15/2010 11:56 AM:
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius gmail com> wrote:
>   
>> On 15 May 2010 15:14, Robert Latest <boblatest googlemail com> wrote:
>>     
>>> BTW, the rest of f-spot looks pretty good from what I've been able to
>>> test. But it is very, very sluggish. This is a 512MB 2GHz AMD machine.
>>>       
>> I would suggest getting more RAM, I would not recommend editing and
>> managing photos without at least 2 Gb RAM nowadays.
>>     
> Only if the software involved is programmed inefficiently (as f-spot
> may very well be). I don't see the point in slowing down the importing
> of images by displayign them all as thumbnails. If f-spot really tries
> to keep thousands of thumbnails in memory while updating imported
> images -- well I don't know.
>
> robert
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