Re: How dead is f-spot

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 15:03 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-12-06 at 13:52 -0500, Jack wrote: 
> > Gentoo just marked f-spot as dead with the comment "Dead for 4
> > years,  
> > relies on obsolete lcms, bundles a lot of libs.  Removal in a
> > month."
> There was work on the LCMS dependency.  I'm not sure where that ended
> up.
> It still works well for me, but yeah... someday.

I've converted to Shotwell.  With this version [0.22.0-1.4.x86_64] it
has worked well and the import was flawless.  Duplicate detection seems
effective, tags were preserved. and the library monitoring is really
nice.

> Do any of the alternatives support hierarchical tagging like f-spot
> does?  Last I looked shotwell[*1] did not.

It does

> I would like something GNOMEish that fits nicely in the GNOME
> environment.
> [*1]  And I'm still a bit bitter about the whole Shotwell thing -
> when they could have just contributed to an existing application].

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