[Shotwell] Raspberry Pi and Shotwell

[Chris Lombaard]

Hi Adam / Clinton,

Did not realise it was going to be this easy.  Thanks to the guys over at
http://www.raspbian.org/ who have already ported 35000+ Debian packages
over including Shotwell.

*For those interested in the results:*
Tested Shotwell 0.12.3 on a flavour of Debian called:
     Debian GNU/Linux wheezy - Or just plain Raspbian. Used image dated
2012-07-15
     Display Manager:  LXDE

Installed using command: sudo apt-get install shotwell

Program starts up fairly quickly. About 10 to 15 seconds on first start up.

Screenshots provided here:
https://plus.google.com/photos/112851667207900734125/albums/5774796959731958321

Time taken to import pictures with what is available is "fair to good".
Takes a bit longer to import with only 700MHz CPU Single Core and 224MB RAM
with SD Card as storage medium.

46 Pictures imported "In Place" took just over a minute to finish.

Regards,
Chris
@lombaardcj
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On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Clinton Rogers <clinton at yorba.org> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> Apologies for having a bit of a geek moment here, but I think this
> should be eminently possible with a little elbow grease and sincerely
> hope you succeed.  Back during the 0.10 era, I managed to compile it
> on OpenPandora (after several days spent plumbing the murky depths of
> the Angstrom repositories).
>
> I couldn't get a sensible cross-compilation environment, so I just
> compiled on the unit itself.  Compilation took considerable time and
> patience and it didn't run too well with a lot of images in it (it's a
> first-gen model with 256MB RAM and I don't have swap enabled, so I saw
> the OOM killer quite a bit); there were some other user-experience
> problems as well (all the dialog boxes, for example,  kind of 'expect'
> the target computer  to have a display taller than 480 pixels).
> Still, though, it did run; on a Raspberry Pi, with the faster CPU and
> more memory, things should go a lot more smoothly.
>
> Please do let us know how things go; this would be pretty cool if it
> worked.  (I used to work for a firm that, among other things, made
> children's game machines that ran embedded Linux under the hood, and
> somewhere along the way, I seem to have developed a bit of a soft spot
> in my heart for very small machines that can do very big things...)
>
> Best of luck,
> Clint
>
>
>
> On 09/08/2012, lombaardcj at gmail.com <lombaardcj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Adam,
> >
> > I see it as a challenge work trying out.  I love Shotwell and the
> memories
> > around it.  Also throw in a mention when people start talking photo
> > management software and how they struggle to keep it all together(without
> > Shotwell).
> >
> > Will keep you up to date.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Chris
> > Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Adam Dingle <adam at yorba.org>
> > Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:56:09
> > To: <lombaardcj at gmail.com>
> > Cc: <shotwell at lists.yorba.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Shotwell] Raspberry Pi and Shotwell
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > We've never heard of anyone trying to run Shotwell on a Raspberry Pi.
>  We'll
> > be curious to hear how it works out.  :)  Cheers -
> >
> > adam
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:01 AM, lombaardcj at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi team Yorba,
> >
> > Ever had a mention of Shotwell be able to run on the now famous
> Raspberry Pi
> > "ARM based" mini computer?
> >
> > I'm in the process of running my own tests to see if it's possible from
> > Shotwell source.
> >
> > Thanks to your help, I have been able to compile many a version of
> Shotwell
> > from git source over the last year on Ubuntu.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Chris
> > Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you!
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>
> --
> public struct Box {
>     public static const int HAND_GRENADES = 12;
> -- from shotwell/src/Box.vala
>



-- 
Groete,
Chris Lombaard