[Shotwell] Usage performance shotwell vs. f-spot

[oliver]

Hello,


even importing has taken a lot of time,
now I can compare shotwell vs. f-spot with
"real data".

When i did massive imports of files some months ago,
this was somehow unrealistic for typical use, as that
test was importing a huge number of files from one directory and all those files had same date.
So a filesystem issue might have added to the problem.

Now I have my f-spot stuf fimported into shotwell.

Shotwell is much more responsive.
It even llowed me to look at already imported pictures,
while doing the import of new files.

Now I have started f-spot to compare it, and f-spot is slower even
without a running import - just using it as is.

It does not even update it's gui at the moment, so
f-spot is really ugly.

So after doing a last backup of my f-spot dir (or
writing a small tool that shows me files that were
not imported by shotwell), I think I can throw away my f-spot
stuff completely then. :-)

I already convnced other people to use shotwell,
and now, late, I also migrate.
I think this is the right decision, even some issues are open
in shotwell.

Ciao,
   Oliver


P.S.: Above I talked about the better responsiveness only,
      but the better GUI and features (and keyboard driven usage)
      are also a good plus.

P.S.S.: I did the import in a testing directory (/tmp) and hope,
        no problems will occur, when I move all my stuff to my $HOME
        ...