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What are the advantages of using Shotwell? What are the disadvantages?

David Siegel
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The specification for this decision is here

Here (Sorry, this show has been removed from Blip.) is a video clip where we discussed Shotwell (and other apps) at the Ubuntu Developer Summit.

A.B.
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Jorge Castro
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Essentially the choice was made upstream (by Gnome). But there are a lot of advantages:

  • No Mono
  • It's lightweight and crash free
  • Better integrated with the Gnome Desktop
  • It has support for the RAW format
  • Some basic editing capabilities

As stated on the comment above the elimination of Mono from the default install would be a huge bonus, less occupied space, and less conspiracy theories evolving Microsoft and .Net running about.

paulo.albuquerque
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    Can you give some evidence that removing Mono was a strong motivating factor? That's a controversial reason, and you've listed it first and treated it at length. – David Siegel Jul 29 '10 at 10:03
  • I don't think that was a strong motivating factor, in fact I think it had nothing to do. I said that would be a bonus, the free space on the install CD would be a real advantage. As for the religious conversations, they're just useless. – paulo.albuquerque Jul 29 '10 at 11:20
  • Is tomboy staying? This runs on mono too, I'm lead to believe... – Marty Jul 29 '10 at 18:32
  • Shotwell is just better. Better capabilities and a clear vision. It's going to be a great app very soon. – Owais Lone Jul 31 '10 at 05:34
  • I don't think GNOME upstream had anything to do with that choice : both f-spot and shotwell are photo managers for GNOME, but they don't have any kind of special status in the GNOME project or platform. One significant difference is that f-spot is hosted on GNOME infrastructure (git, bugzilla, etc.) – Bertrand Lorentz Aug 02 '10 at 09:34
  • @Owais: A year later, Shotwell is still lacking in features compared to what f-spot was back then :( – Sergey Sep 20 '11 at 21:41