Comments on: Is The New gThumb A Potential F-Spot Killer?

By: duffydack

duffydack — Sat, 01 May 2010 19:35:00 +0000

This newer Gthumb was actually in the lucid alpha for a while before it changed back to how it is now.. I loved it..wondered what happended to it.. and no I know.

By: john L

john L — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:04:00 +0000

I’ve tested the new gthumb.
It actually beats f-spot in usability. To be really better, it miss some things:
- Specific icons for modification tools
- Export to popular web photo service (picasa, flickr…)
- Intergration with libchamplain (use of geolocalisation with openstreetmap)
- An histogram!
- Add the possibility to write metadata

And to be perfect:
- An floating edition mode in fullscreen
- An “openGL viewer” like in digikam (but more integrated)
- More view type, like a “flow view” (integration with clutter, for example)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:22:00 +0000

Hi,
I like the new design, but can you move the text “Crop” & the logo, on the toolbar, more upper ? ( to win some pixel for the pitcure )

By: alex

alex — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:43:00 +0000

Hi,
I have solved the problem. One more package must be installed:
sudo aptitude install libunique-dev
Regards

By: d0od

d0od — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:42:00 +0000

Are you sure you’ve navigated into the gThumb folder? Did ./autogen.sh produce any errors? Try running ./configure instead.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:15:00 +0000

me too …

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found

help?

By: alex

alex — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:35:00 +0000

Hi,
I have followed the tutorial, but at the last step executing “make&& sudo make install” command I got error:
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
Any idea what is wrong?
Regards

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:22:00 +0000

RAW support?

By: mattman

mattman — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:22:00 +0000

I managed to install gthumb with the help of this article. I used checkinstall for the final step. When i try to run gthumb as a normal user I get a segmentation fault but if I run it with sudo it starts fine. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? I would guess that it is some kind of a permissions issue, but which file?

By: Some guy

Some guy — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:16:00 +0000

The errors you get when you use the autogen script are because you haven’t installed the libunique-dev package. Install that and you’ll be marvellous.

By: zombiepig

zombiepig — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:57:00 +0000

You should add libclutter-1.0-dev and libclutter-gtk-0.10-dev to the apt-get line, because then you’ll get the nice slideshow transitions! :)

By: d0od

d0od — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:32:00 +0000

Not that i found so far.. but then f-spot doesn’t have this either, so it’s a bit moot.

Also bear in mind that this is a pre-beta sneak-peek at it, and it will be version 2.11.1 that is released – and this is 2.11.0! Not everything will be included in it already – patience!

By: Connor

Connor — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:05:00 +0000

Ah, so no transform then?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:48:00 +0000

what doctor who quote? :-o
and i call myself a fan.. for shame.. :’(

By: d0od

d0od — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:53:00 +0000

Of course it comes with resizing – the sentence wasn’t structured to list every single editing tool preferred by people. For the record it comes with enhance, crop, resizing, colour adjustment, negative, desaturate (black and white), mirror, flip, rotation and red eye removal….

…so far.

By: bystander

bystander — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:38:00 +0000

“it comes with most of the editing tools found in the current version â€“ and includes the most popular editing options such as red-eye removal, rotation and auto-enhancement”

No resizing?

By: Connor

Connor — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:45:00 +0000

Haven’t used F-Spot since Gutsy, maybe before, I always found it buggy and liable to gray screen and hang for no apparent reason. When I found gThumb I couldn’t understand why they even included F-Spot at all. gThumb is fantastic, especially for simple resizing, cropping or simple adjustments to images that can be done so quickly. For anything else, I open Photoshop.

By: pt

pt — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:33:00 +0000

There was not much to kill in F-spot

By: Mohan

Mohan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:35:00 +0000

Hmm, pretty cool. 10.04 looks like it might have a lot of changes. :D

By: d0od

d0od — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:03:00 +0000

Impression using the Night-impression metacity.

Impression is part of the community-themes package in Karmic: -

sudo apt-get install community-themes

to use the night metacity just ‘click’ custom and then ‘window border’ and choose it.