
Each event has one "key photo" associated with it These events, so the basic mode of interaction is one of a reverse-sorted The importer is notĬurrently able to deal with images in raw formats.Īfter being imported, photos are organized into "events," which are just The user imported a directory from moments earlier. Regardless of where the application was started - and regardless of where Obnoxiously, the file browser always starts in the user's home directory Importing can be done directly from a camera or from a directory. Also unlike gthumb, Shotwell will not just operate on a directoryįull of images one must, instead, "import" images into the application. Unlike gthumb, Shotwell 0.5.2 is entirely happy to run without access to 3DĮffects. The tool for its very two-dimensional intended task, one needs to question Bling is nice, but if it kills the ability to use The 3D requirement, instead, comes from a desire to show fancy effects in Now, as far as your editor knows, gthumb has not yetĪcquired the ability to work with those 3D cameras which are all the rage. The bugzillaĮntry indicates that this crash is the result of being unable toĭisplay 3D effects. Photo manager in the Ubuntu 10.10 release, so it seems worth a look.įirst, though, a grumpy note on the gthumb problem. Shotwell is said to be replacing F-Spot as the default In this context, the relatively new Shotwell application came to yourĮditor's attention. "crashes at start") in Rawhide for quite some time leaving your editor to Unfortunately, gthumb has been broken (as in It's old, dead, not really free, and unmaintained. In recent years, xv has become less of a tool of choice itĭid a number of things right that others still haven't figured out, but Preparing conference pictures for articles or pictures of children for Your editor routinely does a fair amount of photo editing, typically
