Hi, competition is always good and I think f-spot's
developers must pay attention to peaple say about shotwell's
strenghts and f-spot weakness, so here I go:
Shotwell strenghts:
1. Speed: The thumbnails displays are lighting fast. I can
jump to any part of my photo collection ane/time d bs get
displayed almost instantly
2. Multiple photo collection: From the command line I can
specify which collection I want to start.
3. Export. The facebook plugin works great, I haven't mess
with the others but this one works as expected (a must for me)
4. Stability. So far, I have not stability issues.
5. Change date
F-spot weakness:
1. Low Speed: The thumbnails are slow, if I jump to some
point oh my collection, the thumbnails seem to be regenerated.
Or if I use the window's scroll bar to navigate through
thumbnails, I have to stop navigation at some point to be able
to see the thumbs at that position (again, the thumbs looks
empty and after 2 o 3 seconds they appear)
2. No Multiple photo collection. I can at least 2 uses of
this:
a) The Hidden tag hasn't subtags, so if I had a lot of
pics there this I had trouble finding something. And, what is
the point of a tag named Hidden if It is visible at the tag
structure? I have in there some pics of ex girlfriends, then I
show my actual girlfriend some pics of us, but when she show the
"hidden" tag, she demand to see inside! so hidden do not
actually hide lol
b) I want to share f-spot with another person and can't
create another account for him
3. Export plugins. I use a lot smugmug and facebook to share
my photos, but suddenly they both stop working (well there is
now the smugmug redux), but today the facebook plugin isn't
working.
4. Stability. I had several issues here. 1 of 3 times, when I
import some pics, f-spot hangs, then I retry the import and
everything goes fine. Same for export to a
folder. Also, sometimes the thumbs do not show, so I have to
double click a empty thumbnail to see at what photo I'm
positioned.
5. The date change isn't working for me. I went vacation with
my family and my sister's camara has the wrong date (something
at 1950), when I imported this photos, f-spot sorted like the
year was 2050, then I try to change the date, but with not luck
I'm using f-spot for a couple of years and was very happy
with it, but I must admit that the weakness I already mention
are pissing me off from a months ago, so I hope this weakness
change to strengths soon!
2011/8/12 Heiner
<list heinrich-muenz de>
+1
And for me image versioning is a must, too! At this time,
shotwell is
quite o.k. for a few hundred cellphone jpgs, but not for
work with huge
photo collections.
Heiner
Am Freitag, den 12.08.2011, 15:34 +0100 schrieb Graham
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