{"id":2160,"date":"2010-10-25T15:33:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T05:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2010-10-25T15:33:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T05:33:27","slug":"ubuntu-10-10-biggest-mistake-shotwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/ubuntu-10-10-biggest-mistake-shotwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 10.10 biggest mistake: shotwell"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is meant to replace f-spot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It just isn’t ready.<\/p>\n

I do not have what I would consider a large photo collection. It’s about 77GB on disk, maybe 30,000 images.<\/p>\n

Importing from f-spot is horrendously<\/strong> slow for what is essentially a few INSERT..SELECT statements. It does not copy your photos anywhere, yet takes about that long.<\/p>\n

It eats memory for breakfast. No, really. I bought a digital camera around New Year 2003. In just importing the photos from 2003… It’s now using 800MB of memory… sorry, 900MB now. At final count, at the end of 2003, it’s up to 1.6GB of memory used and an additional 300MB of disk space in ~\/.shotwell\/thumbs. How on earth is it going to cope when it gets to where I really start shooting? Now, the Shotwell website does state that there was a memory leaking bug that is now fixed in trunk. Note where it isn’t fixed – in Ubuntu.<\/p>\n

Ubuntu 10.10 currently ships with an unusable<\/strong> photo manager.<\/p>\n

f-spot is\u00c2\u00a0nowhere near<\/strong> perfect. Relegating it to universe instead of main (i.e. it’s now “not maintained by Canonical”) is just stupid.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I still love darktable – it’s simply wonderful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is meant to replace f-spot. It just isn’t ready. I do not have what I would consider a large photo collection. It’s about 77GB on disk, maybe 30,000 images. 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