Your take on Shotwell?

kikinovak · 12-22-2014, 12:12 PM

Hi,

I'm currently looking for a best-of-the-breed photo management application for the Xfce-based MLED. I've never really used Shotwell, and I'd be curious to have your advice. Can you recommend Shotwell? What are its advantages/drawbacks? Does it handle PTP cameras?

Cheers,

Niki

Didier Spaier · 12-22-2014, 01:07 PM

I've never used Shotwell, but fotoxx is awesome. Try the latest version (14.12), you'll just need to update the $VERSION of the SlackBuild.

glorsplitz · 12-22-2014, 01:07 PM

Does digiKam not fit with MLED? I thought you looked into it a little while back.

pan64 · 12-22-2014, 01:23 PM

that highly depends on what do you mean by "photo management". I would also recommend fotoxx or gimp.

kikinovak · 12-22-2014, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by glorsplitz

Does digiKam not fit with MLED? I thought you looked into it a little while back.

I'm looking for a GTK app that fits nicely into Xfce.

kikinovak · 12-22-2014, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by pan64

that highly depends on what do you mean by "photo management". I would also recommend fotoxx or gimp.

I need two features essentially: manage pictures and import them from a PTP camera. For image manipulation, I already use GIMP.

The perfect app would be Ristretto + printing + PTP camera handling.

Didier Spaier · 12-22-2014, 05:40 PM

Out of curiosity I just tried to build Shotwell. It took a looong time to build most dependencies including webkigtk3 (more than 2 hours with a Core I7 a SSD and 8G RAM), to no avail, still missing something. I gave up.

But I built and installed kphotoalbum: no dependency beyond a full Slackware installation, looks nice, but it's for KDE4. Oh well...

saulgoode · 12-23-2014, 02:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

Out of curiosity I just tried to build Shotwell. It took a looong time to build most dependencies including webkigtk3 (more than 2 hours with a Core I7 a SSD and 8G RAM), to no avail, still missing something. I gave up.

I had a similar experience years back. The Shotwell developers pretty much rely on the entire Gnome environment being available on the target, which can cause grief for deployment on Slackware.