I'll point out that it was never the Shotwell team's intention to develop a program that would replace Eye of GNOME. For the record, here's an excerpt from some thoughts on the subject that I sent to Rick Spencer and Robert Ancell a couple of months ago:
Shotwell was primarily designed to be a photo organizer like, say, iPhoto, Picasa or Aperture. Now, of course, the line between a photo organizer and image viewer is somewhat blurry. The user can invoke Shotwell on a photo file directly, and Shotwell may evolve to gain more image viewer capabilities. But today, here are Eye of GNOME features which the Shotwell viewer does not yet have: - can open any GNOME-supported image type including GIF, SVG (Shotwell handles only JPEG, PNG and now RAW files) - transparent pixels are shown as checkerboard pattern (default) or as custom color - photo strip bar (opened via View->Image Collection) shows thumbnails for all photos in a directory - File menu shows recently opened photos - commands to jump to first/last image in current directory - status bar shows count of images in current directory and current position (e.g. "3 / 11") - Edit->Move to Trash command - File->Open With lets me open image in any other installed image application (e.g. Firefox, gThumb, GIMP) - can display complete metadata for a photo (in Properties->Details) - customizable toolbar: Edit->Toolbar lets me rearrange toolbar buttons or add new ones - plugin system with various plugins available (e.g. the eog-plugins package contains plugins for geolocation on a map, slideshow shuffle) - documentation available in DocBook format, not just a wiki page - Print->Image Settings lets me specify image position on printed page - can jump to random image in directory A user who depends on any of these features today may be unhappy if Eye of GNOME is replaced with Shotwell. More generally, I personally don't see a pressing need to replace Eye of GNOME; it's a longstanding core GNOME program with a clean user interface. Most other operating systems have separate applications for image viewing and photo editing/management; for example, on the Mac the Preview and iPhoto programs are different. -- Shotwell Photo Viewer should replace EOG as default viewer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/631440 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to desktop-file-utils in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
