CrunchBang Linux Forums » CrunchBang Talk » Need a photo management program like shotwell
I really liked using Shotwell on Ubuntu, but as that's for Gnome and #! runs Openbox, I was wondering what's the next best thing?
Recommendations would be much appreciated.
I never used shotwell Throne777, what does it have that you are looking for?
I can confirm that Shotwell runs fine in #! Openbox. 
I never used shotwell Throne777, what does it have that you are looking for?
Easy to navigate and tag pictures, doesn't hog a horrific amount of resources, automatically checks folders and imports them into the library whenever you start the program.
I've tried Picasa, but it's essentially a bad Windows port at current (and I'm not sure what Google plan on using it for now they've got G+as their image host).
As snowpine says, I use shotwell on #! with no problems. Picassa used to be the windows version running in Wine, not aware of the big G having any plans to change this ?
Shotwell is also working fine for me with 256mb RAM. Thanks for letting me know about it.
Glad to hear it, it's a neat app and one the main reasons I moved to Wheezy to be able to run the newer version on my collection which had been built on Xubuntu before I saw the light.
Glad to hear it, it's a neat app and one the main reasons I moved to Wheezy to be able to run the newer version on my collection which had been built on Xubuntu before I saw the light.
I got it through searching on Synaptic.
Also, sorry if I'm a bit off-topic here, but is there any way I can remove the organisation of Events by date, so they all fall into the 'Undated' category? If not it's going to really bring my perception of this program down a notch. 
For now I'm just editing them all to today's date, but I'd prefer to not have to do that every day.
Last edited by digzy (2011-12-15 16:35:41)
Not sure to be honest, if someone else doesn't get back to you with a solution, then there is a Shotwell mailing list I did subscribe to at one point where people were very helpful...
Okay, I'll do some Googling and see if I can find it.
It does seem odd that they'd assume everyone wanted to organise their photos just by date.
One thing you can do, is edit the date based events by right clicking on them, then it looks like you can drag and drop photos between the events by dropping them onto the relevant event in the menu, not sure if that is what you are after, or if you need something more sophisticated ?
That's pretty much what I'm doing now, I think - just editting them all to the same date. It would be nice to have them all as 'undated' because it's cleaner, is all.
It also means that all the 'Events' in the chosen time category are organised down to the minute, rather than alphabetically, something which is really fiddly to bypass (I don't know if I can be bothered to make sure every folder is dated an hour after the previous.).
edit- Realised the version in Synaptic is quite old, (0.6, rather than the latest 0.11.0), so I'll attempt installing a newer version to see if it's more versatile.
Last edited by digzy (2011-12-15 18:11:23)
Yeah I had to upgrade to Wheezy to get the newest version, which I probably would have done anyway. But the old version in squeeze was significantly different, so you may prefer the newer one if you can get it installed !
Meh, installing it is not going well. My noobishness shows through doing things like this.
How would I go about upgrading to Wheezy, in case (as I think I will) I fail at installing this latest version totally?
edit- I'll probably start a new topic to sort out my installing issues, I don't want to derail this one any further.
Last edited by digzy (2011-12-15 18:46:07)
Meh, installing it is not going well. My noobishness shows through doing things like this.
How would I go about upgrading to Wheezy, in case (as I think I will) I fail at installing this latest version totally?
I don't recommend upgrading to Wheezy just for one application (Wheezy is not going to be released as Stable until probably 2013).
Easier to use "apt-pinning" to install just the one application from the Wheezy repos:
Snowpine is correct, I went down the Wheezy route as I wanted to pick up a number of new applications, Shotwell amongst them. If you can get pinning to work and pull the Wheezy version then that would be better.
Hehe, I read up on what upgrading would entail and was immediately put off. Guess I'll have to get my head around this Apt Pinning malarky, then. 
Got it working fine. Using 0.11.5 from Testing. Thanks a lot for the tips.
Geeqie has some metadata functionality etc like Shotwell, but it's primarily an image viewer that supports recursive directories sort of like Faststone Image Viewer (windows). Not sure how well it runs on really slow computers, but it works great even if you have encryption on and huge folders.
Posts [ 19 ]
CrunchBang Linux Forums » CrunchBang Talk » Need a photo management program like shotwell
Forums powered by PunBB. Hosted by Linode.
Copyright © CrunchBang Linux.
Proudly powered by Debian GNU/Linux.
Debian is a registered trademark of Software in the Public Interest, Inc.