gThumb to be default image editor in Ubuntu Netbook Edition

By , Published March 2, 2010

gThumb is to be included in Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition as the default image editor.

F-Spot, the default image editor in regular Ubuntu, was removed from the UNE live-cd only a few days ago. The addition of Gthumb puts an image editor back in its place.
As gThumb is lightweight and feature-packed there is no trade-off for Netbook users – it has photo exporting to popular photo sharing sites such as Flickr, far greater set of editing tools for tweaking photos and, above all else, a super easy interface.
49% of you think F-Spot sucks. No, really!
In tangent to discussions at the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Lucid (where the decisions are made on what the next release includes) we ran a poll asking for your take on F-Spot simply titled ” Do You Use F-Spot?
Out of 1, 151 response a whopping 49% of you stated that you remove F-Spot ASAP. Only 7% of people used it because they liked it.
Install
If you’re currently using Lucid you can install gThumb via the software centre. Lucid Netbook users will find it installed by default in the 10.04 Beta.
Potential F-Spot killer
We looked at gThumb 2, which has been re-written from the ground up, back in November when we queried whether it was, in fact, better than F-Spot. Our conclusion was that it most certainly was – and since that review gThumb has come on in leaps and bounds – totally nuking our concerns we had at the time.

You can try out gThumb 2 using the following .deb files

First install this .deb
download me

Followed by gThumb 2.11 itself using the respective .deb below: -
64bit
32bit

Thanks to OMG! newshound om26er
Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Anonymous

    I’d use F-Spot if I could plug in my camera it would copy the images to the “Pictures” folder prompting me for some suitable folder name, and then worked on them from there.

    I haven’t used F-Spot in a while but every time I’ve plugged in a camera and let F-Spot do its thing, I always found it confusing and it wouldn’t do what I expected.

  • http://olympusdigitalpen.blogspot.com/ dr. watson

    I really would like to see F-Spot removed all-together. Every time I have use F-Spot, I have issues with the software (crashing). Considering digital media and digital media management are becoming key elements of the operating system, I think it is critical that Ubuntu finds a respected, stable, application to replace F-Spot. Picasa would be a most excellent replacement, but Google only half-arsed the project by not re-writing it in native code.

  • Daniel

    “I don’t use” != “I think it sucks”

  • Anonymous

    I hate F-spot. I think it is rubbish! hence I always remove it all my ubutu systems asap!

  • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/mark_c@markecurtis.com Merk

    I wonder how many of that 49% dislike F-Spot solely because of Mono

  • nomono

    Great news! F-Spot did not only use too much of system resources (mostly because of mono), it also crashed almost every time I tried to use it. I will try gthumb, but it looks like I’ll continue using Digikam (qt, though:( ), which is rly awesome. The Netbook Edition begins to look really awesome!

  • Anonymous

    I have no complaints against F-Spot, it does the job when all you need is a simple photo editing.

    I am old fashioned for my cataloguing, and often still rely on the old folders rather than let the software do it for me

    Off to try gthumbs

  • http://seifsallam.co.cc/ Seif Sallam

    why only Netbook Edition – if every body agrees that Gthumb is amazing, why not use it on Lucid by default.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      It’s just one of those decisions that really should be made with user input rather than developer. It was discussed at UDS-L (see: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/11/gimp-to-be-removed-lucid.html ) but the actual reasons for keeping F-spot were that it does what people need it to do. (?!)

  • Anonymous

    Shotwell is very good too, I hope it gets included by default in Ubuntu soon (maybe lucid+2). I also hope they will remove tomboy and replace it by Gnote, so that they can remove the mono packages.

    • Anonymous

      UNE is already sans Tomboy, so excluding F-spot should remove Mono from the default UNE install.

      • zekopeko

        I think you are wrong. It was removed at one point but was put back in when people complained. I think there was an article about it here.

        • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

          Tbh i’ve lost track of what is in UNE and what isn’t! The decisions were literally changing every few hours a week. AFAIK tomboy hasn’t yet been put back in UNE as of yet. OpenOffice most certainly has, but the whiteboard still reads “drop tomboy > DONE”.

    • zekopeko

      Don’t count on it. Banshee may well likely replace Rhythmbox in Lucid+1.

      • Kadath

        For real? I don’t care for Banshee. Rhythmbox is far from perfect but Banshee still can’t do proper gapless playback, AFAIK. One of my main complaints was that Rhythmbox doesn’t have an EQ but there’s a plugin now.

        Anyway, is it just me, or are the people maintaining the Netbook Edition more receptive to user feedback than the regular official Live CD?

        • zekopeko

          Banshee has a gapless playback in one of the git branches IIRC. There were/are packages in some PPA.

        • zekopeko

          Banshee has a gapless playback in one of the git branches IIRC. There were/are packages in some PPA.

          • Kadath

            Yeah, I tried that build specifically. Gapless still didn’t work for me. I might try it again, but I don’t find Banshee’s UI to be better than Rhythmbox’s.

          • http://jamesgecko.com/ James

            Banshee also starts up a lot slower than Rhythmbox, even when other Mono apps have already been loaded.

          • http://jamesgecko.com/ James

            Banshee also starts up a lot slower than Rhythmbox, even when other Mono apps have already been loaded.

          • Kadath

            Yeah, I tried that build specifically. Gapless still didn’t work for me. I might try it again, but I don’t find Banshee’s UI to be better than Rhythmbox’s.

      • Kadath

        For real? I don’t care for Banshee. Rhythmbox is far from perfect but Banshee still can’t do proper gapless playback, AFAIK. One of my main complaints was that Rhythmbox doesn’t have an EQ but there’s a plugin now.

        Anyway, is it just me, or are the people maintaining the Netbook Edition more receptive to user feedback than the regular official Live CD?

  • Golgoth

    still stuck with gthumb v2.10.11 in lucid… and not with 2.11 as your post says…

  • daas88

    so the netbook edition has a better image editor than the desktop edition? lol

  • daas88

    so the netbook edition has a better image editor than the desktop edition? lol

  • Anonymous

    I am using Karmic. I followed u’re links and downloaded it. gthumb-data – ok. gthumb can’t be installed, because it doesn’t find the right dependences. What know? :(

  • Anonymous

    I am using Karmic. I followed u’re links and downloaded it. gthumb-data – ok. gthumb can’t be installed, because it doesn’t find the right dependences. What know? :(

  • http://jamesgecko.com/ James

    I really didn’t use or like F-spot very much until I got a digital camera. After that it made a lot more sense; it’s far and away the best Linux photo management software I’ve found. Yes, that includes Picasa, which won’t import photos from my camera or upload to Facebook in the Linux “port.”

  • http://jamesgecko.com/ James

    I really didn’t use or like F-spot very much until I got a digital camera. After that it made a lot more sense; it’s far and away the best Linux photo management software I’ve found. Yes, that includes Picasa, which won’t import photos from my camera or upload to Facebook in the Linux “port.”

  • Anonymous

    I would prefer this over f-spot in Ubuntu vanilla. F-spot blows compared to Picasa + wine, which is what i use.

  • Anonymous

    I would prefer this over f-spot in Ubuntu vanilla. F-spot blows compared to Picasa + wine, which is what i use.

  • Anonymous

    These Netbook devs are doing everything right, replacing Firefox with Chrome, removing F-Spot… it sounds great!

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Chrome is only on UNE ARM – sadly not on regular netbook edition. =(

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Chrome is only on UNE ARM – sadly not on regular netbook edition. =(

  • Anonymous

    These Netbook devs are doing everything right, replacing Firefox with Chrome, removing F-Spot… it sounds great!

  • Anonymous

    Obviously the download-links aren’t working with Karmic Koala. But I found and there is existing another page where u can get this version from gThumb running on Karmic… and what I should say: It’s really better than F-Spot and it’s really nice.

  • Anonymous

    Obviously the download-links aren’t working with Karmic Koala. But I found and there is existing another page where u can get this version from gThumb running on Karmic… and what I should say: It’s really better than F-Spot and it’s really nice.

  • Jeremy

    Where has The GIMP gone to???

  • Jeremy

    Where has The GIMP gone to???

  • hugmyballs

    A wise decision.