i am very happy to read this. today i am no more alone.
see the comment i written about a new tool in digikam
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i am happy for photo geek (about this new tool)
but non photo geek wants only
– to experiment emotion with souvenir
– to live closer together with its family and friends
then
non photo geek wants :
– a good gui
– a mean to organize and to find easily photos
– a mean to share photos
non geek has low interest about fixing photos
non geek has hich interest in : digikam must be included seamlessly in the workflow among the other tools in particular web photo cms.
For example :
– not to have error in exif data about rotation
– for picasaweb it must be functionaly complete then must be able to send all tags for photos and movies
many thanks for your works
and
be more Proust-ian (yes i also like madeleine)
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Personally I’d enjoy seeing them all move over to Gwenview + Kipi plugins… which need kdelibs… meaning that all of Ubuntu would eventually have to move to KDE as there “wasn’t room for mono and an orange desktop environment on the disk”

Before the flames erupt: ***Yes, I’m Joking!***

It just isn’t released in the same 6 months cycles as the (now called) KDE SC. Looking how fast the digiKam team makes releases, it just would not make sense anyway.

Aaron Seigo :It’s the benefit of using Digikam for this without forcing all the additional UI around albums and what not that are required for a pro-app like Digikam.

Guess what you want is ShowPhoto, the image editor from Digicam in it’s stand alone mode

http://lwn.net/Articles/359579/

The question is littlebit hard. Avarage joe does not need GIMP features, the F-spot is enough. But removing GIMP, they just made a LiveCD to be such you could not edit images on different computer on the road.

There are actually four versions what would be comparable.

- F-spot
- Picasa
- Gwenview
- digiKam

The F-spot is tied to Mono. Not good. It is slow, it crash and it actually does not have all features nicely packaged. And it even has hardcoded ~/Photos folder so it does not follow localisation. What is very bad by usability. Tagging is harder because it is just too simple.

Picasa is closed source. Does not look so nice but has all features what avarage user would need. Rating is limited and tagging by same way.

Gwenview is great but it needs Kipi-plugins to work well. Tagging would be done only by nepomil and rating as well. Dont know how well those write tags to EXIF. But it has almost all needed features as well. But it actually needs more the dolphin to be usefull on big albums.

digiKam is best of all these. It has almost all features what you can wait for such software. (I need to ask why digiKam is not official KDE software?!). It only miss layer masks and fixing a few usability things to get straight software. It has lots of potential but still it manages to get the UI keeping simple. What it would need is possibility to have somekind “avarage joe” mode. But that could be avoided if digiKam gets the sidepanels working better way. Mayby more like the amarok has?

but the ubuntu is a distribution focused to use Gnome. So Gwenview and digiKam does not work there because they need too much space for KDE platform. Picasa does not fit to UI and needs the wine. So there is nothing more left than F-spot. So it is F-spot or nothing. It is better than nothing so stick with it. Because GIMP does not offer anykind photo collectioning. It is problematic for normal user.

Lindsay :
>Mono, which has known license/freedom problems.
Bollocks. Pure uninformed FUD.

Uninformed? Who’s the owner of C# patents?