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Just wanting some suggestions on which photo manager(s) to try next. This is a Gnome window environment, No KDE stuff will work. It came with "F Spot" and I don't like it, my wife is the main photo person, I haven't spent too much time using it but I've noticed it is confusing when importing pictures off the camera. It will make unnecessary folders in the "Photos" Directory that are empty so it leaves us nervous whether they are saved or not. So I will save them Directly to the "Photos" directory and fspot will not show them with the rest of the pictures(Plus there are random duplicates). The time line is nice if it worked, when I made the switch to ubuntu four years ago from M$ all the pictures were given wrong dates on the timeline. The only way I know to correct it is through the directory tree with copy paste in and out of the folders. Long story short, What Photo Managers are you using on Gnome and would the be worth a try?
Shotwell is going to be the new default photo manager for later Ubuntu releases. (Or maybe is with the latest Maverick? Not sure.) Anyway, it's not bad. Better than F-Spot, but then, I think everything is better than F-Spot.
And as I much as I prefer free software when possible, Google Picasa is quite good. Much faster at importing photos than either of the above in my experience.
There is a beta linux release here, but it's not really maintained by google and is far behind the windows release. (Still perfectly good though.)
Yes, Shotwell has been made the default with 10.10, which is what it has be default. It also isn't in the repositories of previous Ubuntu releases, which means you have to upgrade to 10.10. If you have Lucid, you should have been offered an upgrade already in Update Manager. Just click "Upgrade" and you will be able to upgrade to the new release.
Shotwell is available in lucid, but only at version 5. There's a PPA you can use to get the latest release on Lucid if you don't want to upgrade from the LTS.
Thank you any other ideas are welcome because I would also like to know a portable one to use an a handheld or a different distro. I am still using intrepid I think, been puting off upgrade on account of moving and backing up files. I wonder if my fav game "eternal lands" works well through synaptic like it did 8.10. Anyway I hope everyone has a good day, and sorry if my long posts are annoying, I ramble in walking life too.
Why use a photo manager at all?
I store mine in folders whose name is the date I loaded them. I use eye of gnome or a similar image viewer to see them. (I dislike "slideshows" and special effects and loathe iPhoto and all imitations of it)
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