Hi, According this article [1], Shotwell is replacing F-spot in Maverick. Article says that this was agreed at UDS.
Kind Regards Laco [1] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/see-ya-f-spot-shotwell-comes-to-ubuntu.html On 15 May 2010 10:07, Danny Piccirillo <danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > If i remember correctly, F-Spot had to undergo some big changes to meet the > needs drawn up for Lucid, but i'm still not happy with it, and think it > would make more sense to adopt a photo manager that is already in line with > our needs. F-spots interface is so much nicer now, but 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've converted many > newbies to Ubuntu and F-spot has consistently been a major sore-spot. I > always listen before giving my opinions on software with my new converts, > and i never have to say anything about F-spot. If they don't complain to me > on their own, i'll ask plainly what they think of it, and i remember the > last answer i got was a prompt and strangely passionate "ugh, i hate it". > All i do is direct them to the alternatives to see which they like most > (solang, gThumb, or Shotwell). Now i'm not saying F-spot isn't a decent > application. F-spot is solid, but we can do a lot better. > > Solang is an unfinished product, but looks to be very promising (though i > hate to throw around that word). Solang seems to be doing things right, much > like PiTiVi and Telepathy, but hopefully without any lack of features. Check > this out from their FAQ (http://live.gnome.org/Solang/FAQ): >> >> Why write yet another photo manager? F-Spot, GThumb, J-Brout, Shotwell, >> etc. rock. >> >> In our opinion none of them integrate well with the desktop. They need you >> to explicitly import photos from a directory and any meta-data that you add >> (mainly tags) get inserted into their private database. We do not do that >> anymore. We use Tracker (http://tracker-project.org/) for these purposes. It >> allows us to automatically detect all the photos on your computer and any >> meta-data that is added gets inserted into Tracker. So if you tag your >> photos in Solang, you can use those tags from any other application on the >> desktop (eg., Nautilus), and vice versa. > > If Solang can mature in time, it might be worth making default in Maverick > or Maverick +1. The newest version (old one wasn't stable enough) isn't > packaged for debian yet, but hopefully that won't take too long. Bug report > for anyone > interested: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=579606 > -- > .danny > > ☮♥Ⓐ - http://www.google.com/profiles/danny.piccirillo > Every (in)decision matters. > > -- > 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 > > -- 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
