As a happy F-Spot user, let me make a few comments. On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 05:07 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote: > i still get complaints of it being slow and the fact that it requires > you to import all of your photos into one folder is...beyond words. (...) > i remember the last answer i got was a prompt and strangely passionate > "ugh, i hate it".
I want to provide the opposite anecdotal evidence that I very much like F-Spot, a few warts not withstanding. I started to use it a few years ago for my personal photo collection (now approx. two or three thousand photos) when it stopped making sense to force photos into a directory hierarchy. I don't have an ongoing problem with the importing of photos, since new photos are on the camera's SD card anyway, and of course I want to have them copied somewhere. Though yes, initially it *was* a big step to give up on my existing directory hierarchy and surrender to F-Spot, and I do think that it can be a hurdle, even though I'm personally happy with having done so. The other stuff you wrote about Solang certainly looks interesting, but does it do F-Spot database import? I think if Ubuntu changes a default application that required some investment from users (such as actually creating a worthwhile F-Spot database with tags and whatnot), it should provide the option to switch to the new default, including a data import. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
