Hi all, As promised during Wednesday's IRC meeting, here's a quick email for those of you who are interested in photo management in Ubuntu.
As you may know, the default photo management application in Ubuntu will change in Maverick. F-Spot is out, Shotwell is in. Shotwell is developed by a non-profit foundation called Yorba and they are very keen to see it make a good debut in Ubuntu. To this effect, they have moved forward their release date for version 0.7 in order to deliver in time for Maverick, including some of the most important features in the Ubuntu blueprint [1]. I found myself, quite by accident, involved in fixing defects in Shotwell and I'm now in the process of delivering one of the essential features for Ubuntu users: the ability to migrate from F-Spot. So if you feel adventurous and want to see what it looks like, I suggest you get the source and compile from trunk. It's a lot easier than it sounds and all the explanations are on the Yorba site [2]. Don't forget to also build libraw and gexiv2. If you feel even more adventurous and want to see what the upcoming import from F-Spot feature looks like, I uploaded a patch for it yesterday that is still a bit rough round the edges but does what it says on the tin (at least on my machine). To install it, go to the page for defect 139 [3], download the file called shotwell-bug-139.4.diff and apply the patch at the top of the Shotwell directory structure and recompile: patch -p0 < shotwell-bug-139.4.diff This will then add a new File -> Import From F-Spot menu item. The code is able to find existing F-Spot databases in know locations but will also let you specify your own database file. If you find any bug, I'd be more than interested in hearing about it! Happy hacking, Bruno [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell [2] http://yorba.org/shotwell/install/ [3] http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/139 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
