[Shotwell] Shotwell replaces F-Spot in Ubuntu 10.10 App Line-up

[Mike Massonnet]

Hi,

It's the first time I send mail on this list so coming a little from
nowhere let me quickly introduce myself, I'm a user :-)

2010/5/13 Adam Dingle <adam at yorba.org>:
>  > Per
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/ubuntu-1010-application-lineup-sees-no.html!
>  >  Which doesn't like to the original source unfortunately, but I don't
>  > see them being wrong about this.
>
> Yes, this is great news for Shotwell!  There's a more detailed
> announcement here:
>
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/see-ya-f-spot-shotwell-comes-to-ubuntu.html

Indeed, and I have no doubts about this project being a success. I
like it very much, it's in fact the first time I do like importing
photos. Before Shotwell I always copied photos manually to one place,
well I tried some applications but never stuck with them but Shotwell
is really doing this job clean and easy.

What I do miss is support for videos, I still have to pick them up
manually. However I can only play MPEG/2 videos perfectly, videos
recorded in H264 with a very high definition would need to be
converted (with e.g. avidemux) but at least I can backup them :>

I'm using Shotwell 0.4.1 and the only “wrong” bit I did notice is that
by default the sort order is done by date/desc and I had recommend
date/asc as in this way the browsing is chronological and the same as
one takes the photos.

Regards

-- 
Mike