Comments on: Poll: Do You Use F-Spot?

By: d0od

d0od — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:14:00 +0000

gThumb has been rewritten from scratch and looks every bit as sublime as other applications now. For some reaosn they used to have icons baked into the “binary” so you couldn’t change them – i never understood the reason for that because they looked like BeOS icons…Anyway be sure to take a look at lots of shiny pics of the new gThumb @ http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/11/new-gthumb-linux-plugins-f-spot-killer.html

By: Quan

Quan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:18:00 +0000

Every time I launch F-Spot and import images, it gets no responding. I prefer gThumb because it’s fast (ugly, however)

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:01:00 +0000

Who is perpetrating this lobby campaign?

By: stoffe

stoffe — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:40:00 +0000

F-Spot is only in there due to a heavy lobby campaign. If crashes and usability entered into the overall judgement it would be out on its ears in seconds.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:36:00 +0000

I don’t understand the appeal of a photo manager like F-spot. Isn’t that what I have directories/Nautilus for?

Moreover, I want my organizational structure to be cross-platform/flexible/etc.

That means no database on the client. The simple solution for photo and music organization both is just to use directories and keep things organized. Simple, clean, no extra software required.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:31:00 +0000

As a photo-hobbyist I love GIMP and I use it every day.
As a photo-hobbyist I hate f-spot and I uninstall it ASAP.

As a “gnomic” pov, I think that gnome is a set of simple and clean applications.
GIMP and f-spot are not simple and clean applications.

By: Erland

Erland — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:16:00 +0000

DigiKam, even though I use Gnome not KDE. But I’m a professional photographer, so I wouldn’t expect that to reflect in the default applications. That said, I’ve always found F-Spot crap.

By: skalka

skalka — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:04:00 +0000

gThumb as not database at all, it’s perfect if you have a good folder structure.

By: skalka

skalka — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000

Actually f-spot is the first app that I remove when I do a fresh install of Ubuntu.

By: Manish Sinha

Manish Sinha — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:49:00 +0000

Every time I have to crop or resize an image, F-Spot always drop from my mind. Usually GIMP is the thing I open un-intentionally.

I miss Paint.NET on Linux :(

By: Oppy

Oppy — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:38:00 +0000

I’ve never spent much time on F-Spot. I was using Gimp on Windows for image editing so continued with that. The hassle I ran into just to get my photos into F-Spot (despite the fact they were already on the computer) put me off immediately. If we’re losing GIMP to save space (which may be sensible, although it’s one of the premium examples of open source software) then why not F-Spot as well.

By: gimpy

gimpy — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:47:00 +0000

I actually really like f-spot, it can be a bit sluggish, especially navigating using the filmstrip, but the interface is much better than g-thumb, for the most part.
I find f-spot’s editing options a bit basic, but they’d be fine for most casual users, those of us who use layers and curves for basic photo manipulation can always use the edit in gimp option anyway. If i could link together xcf, raw and ufraw settings versions under a single image entry, it would be even better.
F-spot is certainly not perfect, but come on, picasa? Yes it’s much slicker when it comes to in-viewer editing, but the interface is just plain weird and it’s basically a windows app in wine.

By: rothchild

rothchild — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:26:00 +0000

Yeah, the impostition of a folder structure (and duplication of image files when it ‘imports’) are big issues for me. The tagging thing is quite good but sometimes it’s easier just to go to the folder you put it in!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:06:00 +0000

I use the Gimp on a regular basis for everything from basic photo editing, to generating full artwork (not that im an artist or anything…just pretending to be one :p). I honestly don’t care for Fspot at all… I use gthumb for all my image viewing, image management is handled by standard folder arrangement. It’s kinda disappointing that the Gimp won’t be in the default install anymore all the same… I mean sure, anybody that actually wants/needs it can install it with a few clicks, but bye-bye goes the recognition of the Gimp project to new users who DON’T know that it’s there…and that’s the real loss in my opinion. I’ve found when introducing new people to Ubuntu, they’re always really impressed that they can have all this great software, including such a image-editing app right from the bat. Even if they never/rarely use it, they know that power is there, and it was free. IMHO, it takes some of the flash out of the first impression of Ubuntu. Thats all me though…

I feel similarly about the decision to remove ekiga / pidgin and replace them with empathy…but thats not a discussion for this area

By: AndrewNoNumbers

AndrewNoNumbers — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:03:00 +0000

I honestly don’t get the point of a photo manager. I manage my photos using plain old folders and edit them using a full-on editor like GIMP.

By: Mek

Mek — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:22:00 +0000

I am using Gnome, but my photos feel much better in Digikam. One of the reasons is that f-spot enforces its own folder structure, once I got a few albums messed one with another, I decided I don’t like it.

By: zet

zet — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:11:00 +0000

no, i use gimp!!!

I think it’s really stupid to remove gimp!

By: rmotters

rmotters — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:00:00 +0000

I use F-spot, because it suits my needs. I have roughly 10000 images, and don’t find a problem.

I used Picasa, but the updates are few and far between, and it didn’t upload properly to Gallery2. I have tried G-thumb, Digikam and others, but always seem to come back to F-spot. Don’t think I will switch again, cause it is just too much to re-import and tag all the images.

Basically, I import, tag the photos into Albums and do basic editing on them and upload them to my website.

I have tried to use GIMP to fix photos in the past, but I found it too complicated. I actually paid a professional service to fix a damaged photograph, after spending about 10 hours trying to get GIMP to work. All the menus are too confusing and it does not manage photos and upload photos to my website. So it is not much use to me.

By: Mantra

Mantra — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:24:00 +0000

No Mono on my machine.
That means no Tomboy, no F-Spot and no Banshee (when that becomes the default)

By: pt

pt — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:34:00 +0000

They shouldn’t be using Mono on multimedia applications. F-Spot is so slow.
Picasa which uses wine is so much faster and smoother.

The best multimedia applications on Windows dont use .Net for this very reason.