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

[Adam Dingle]

On 05/14/2010 05:57 AM, Mike Massonnet wrote:
> 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 :-)
>    

Welcome!  :)

>
> 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 :>
>    

Yes - we would like to add support for importing/playing videos at some 
point.  This is http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/855 .  This won't make the 
upcoming 0.6 release.  Maybe later this year.

> 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.
>    

Yes, the default photo sort order is by date, descending - we chose this 
because it matches the descending sort order of the Events tree in the 
sidebar.  Fortunately if you prefer a different sort order it's easy to 
change.

You should upgrade to 0.5!  :)

adam