Shotwell 0.7.2 in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Beta
This article is about Shotwell 0.7.2, the latest release, which is included now on the beta release of Ubuntu Maverick. Here are its most important features:
- import photos from F-Spot or from a folder
- view detailed meta info about photos
- set ratings and tags
- filter images
- preview all images, view photos as slideshow, view in fullscreen mode
- sort photos by title, date or rating
- edit in external image editor
- publish photos to Facebook, Flickr or Picasa Web Albums
Publishing to Facebook
- export photos to JPEG or PNG, with the possibility to rescale them
Exporting photos
Shotwell will also organize photos using the so-called "events", sorting them depending on the date they were taken.
8 comments:
And Shotwell has the added bonus of NOT
being written in Mono-C#.
Win-win for free software.
Does anyone know if Shotwell will import videos as well as photos from digital cameras? gThumb (or whatever it was) prior to F-spot used to do this, but now those files are just ignored.
Serious usability loss in my opinion given it's practically impossible to buy a new camera that doesn't have video recording capabilities.
use digikam, it's so much better. I know it's KDE but it works absolutely fine in gnome. Much much better than shotwell or f-spot
Shotwell is billed as a 'Photo Manager'. Why all the excitement about video? I know that most cameras have video capability nowadays but the developers should IMHO concentrate on producing a usable photo manage.
It does not import .tif images which is a major shortcoming as far as I am concerned. I dread to think what else it can't handle.
I note that the developers are aware of this but there seems no movement so far.
Another feature of Shotwell,is that it is a bug fix release. Some of the bugs they got rid of are:
Cancelling Flickr upoload causes crashes.
Creating a new album with an ampersand(&) in the name causes crashes.
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I've just installed Ubuntu 10.10 and upgraded to 11.04. I used to run FreeBSD, but almost entirely from the command line. The windows managers in X Windoes then were just too much trouble and Wine was in its infancy, so I didn't do much there. Frankly, I don't love the Gnome desktop, but I can live with it and I suppose I'll eventually learn to like it, but I HATE the Shotwell program. I'm spoiled. I was used to Picasa in Windows XP. Even the Canon software for downloading from my camera was better than Shotwell. I don't want to have to spend hours adding tags or creating "events" to organize my pictures. I want a nice tree structure with folders showing the date the pictures were taken. After that I might want to organize them by themes or something -- Picasa "albums". Maybe I would get to like Shotwell if I spent more time working with it -- what, three months, six months? I'm not happy running Picasa under Wine, and if I can find a better program I'll use it.
Roger's comment is depressing. I came here hoping to find a replacement for Picasa, which I too am running under Wine (well, Crossover actually). I love the program's functionality and used it for years under Windows. It works OK in Ubuntu 10.04 but the fonts are unpleasant and printing is a nightmare: I have to boot a VirtualBox Windows image for that.
Any other comments in opposition to Roger's opinion?
I'm not comfortable using this file application. in my ubuntu there are other managers who are more practical. personal statement writing service for example
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