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Response from Shotwell team founderResponse from Shotwell team founderPosted Jun 19, 2010 2:22 UTC (Sat) by Velmont (guest, #46433)In reply to: Response from Shotwell team founder by adamdingle Parent article: A quick grumpy review of Shotwell
Have you looked carefully at digiKam?
I've been following Shotwell, because I'd really like to get a less-fat image organizer that digiKam. What digiKam does well:
* You can tag pictures, and captions, and everything is stored INSIDE the picture (I've been burned by this before, using Gallery to write captions for thousands of images and then, all of them lost).
You can use Tracker to do the searching and indexing-part. I've heard it's much better these days.
The other thing digiKam doesn't do is having an easy way to tag pictures fast (you have to click much with the mouse!).
Anyway, thinking it's way cool you're considering changing the way the software works! :D
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Response from Shotwell team founder Posted Jun 21, 2010 20:49 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
The digikam tags are just stored in a database, so if you shut it down first (or are using a non-sqlite database in recent versions) you can add tags in bulk using raw SQL, restart digikam and write the lot out to the images with a couple of mouse clicks. :)
(but, to be honest, a lot of the time tagging depends on the contents of the images, and for that a bunch of select-mouse-clicks and tag clicks are actually a *good* user interface. Using WIMP GUIs for things that actually are graphical in nature seems like a good idea to me.)
Response from Shotwell team founder Posted Jun 23, 2010 5:17 UTC (Wed) by Velmont (guest, #46433) [Link]
Well, ... I've got so many tags. I tag with e.g. names, and so I need to write, I'm writing Jack Smi[...word complete...]. Etc.
So what I want is to go to next picture, add tag «jack smi...», add tag «ha» [ppy], next picture. etc.
You can't do that quickly by the mouse. By all means, the mouse ui can stay, I would probably use that for some things, but not for my main tagging.
Response from Shotwell team founder Posted Jan 6, 2011 22:06 UTC (Thu) by ceplm (guest, #41334) [Link]
It is probably too late for any participant of this thread to actually care, but if anybody finds this via Google, most of the "I just want to organize my photos and then process them with something else" camp can be very well pleased with jbrout (http://jbrout.manatlan.com/, packaged for most Linux distros, but check for the latest version). It stores all tags and info INSIDE of the image file (yes, it has cache for fast search, but it is not the authoritative storage of information). Also, it's trivial to have any external application on right-click-menu. Highly suggested.
Matěj
Response from Shotwell team founder Posted Nov 28, 2011 11:59 UTC (Mon) by Velmont (guest, #46433) [Link] I did search for my own name to find my user ID on lwn, and lo and behold, a new answer. I'll look at it, looks rather nice. Would be interesting to see how fast it is. DigiKam is still, one of the fastest image browsers I've come across. DigiKam loads incrementally better versions of the image, and I believe it decodes the next picture when you have extra time as well. Maybe even it uses a free core on your CPU to do that, I don't know, but I do know that it's miles faster than most other software when looking quickly through huge pictures. Although I'm no fan of the copy on the website: It's noisy!! Very much so! ;-)
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