Comments on: Shotwell - Open source photo organizer

By: Adam Dingle

Adam Dingle — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:35:44 +0000

Marnie, see the Shotwell user guide at http://yorba.org/shotwell/help/ .

By: marnie houslip

marnie houslip — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:24:31 +0000

I am new to Shotwell and need detailed instructions on how to use the facility,how to copy, save, attach to e-mails etc. I have done a number of searches for instructions and mostly get a lot of opinions from users which is no good to me. Have also tried Ubuntu Geek without luck.

By: Barra Darcy

Barra Darcy — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:49:28 +0000

Hello:) I have Ubuntu on my laptop, running from a USB drive….everything has been working fine up unti today.I clicked on the Shotwell ‘panel’ on the bar on the left….nothing happened, it just ‘clicked’ itself a few times and then did nothing. I’ve even tried re-installing Shotwell but nothing happened.Please could you help, i love this photo manager and i don’t really want the other ones cos they don’t have auto-import…?

By: Adam Dingle

Adam Dingle — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:38:53 +0000

@bastard: Shotwell won’t run on Hardy, unfortunately. You’ll need to upgrade to a newer version of Ubuntu.

@wildbillc: Sorry to hear about the crash. If you’d like to file a bug report following the instructions in our FAQ (http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/Shotwell/FAQ) then we’ll try to help you out.

By: wildbillc

wildbillc — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:59:58 +0000

Shotwell worked until the first import from my photo folder. Now it crashes 100% of the time within 2 or 3 seconds of starting.

I’m having a hard time seeing Shotwell as an improvement. FSpot wasn’t perfect but it was usually stable.

By: bastard

bastard — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:46:29 +0000

How do I install it in Hardy?

By: Jim Nelson

Jim Nelson — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:10:07 +0000

This is a known problem, and one we’re anxious to fix. Our ticket is here: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2269

-- Jim

By: Ed P

Ed P — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:55:04 +0000

Tried Shotwell on my 10.04 / 64bit box.

I didn’t get very far. Seems when the application is started (which it appears to do just fine), my mouse pointer routinely freezes.

My entire system (not just Shotwell) becomes rather non-responsive to pointer input.

Closing the app fixes the issue. Anyone else?

By: Adam Dingle

Adam Dingle — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:48:09 +0000

Sally,

if you want to use a screensaver with photos from Shotwell, at the moment you’ll need to use File->Export to export the photos to a directory and then use a third-party screensaver program. We would like to add a built-in screensaver to Shotwell (this is http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1112) but this will not be in Shotwell 0.6, which will be released later this month (June). Hopefully we’ll add screensaver support some time later this year.

I agree it would be nice to support multiple shots of each photo. We have a ticket for this at http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2090 .

Thanks again for your interest in Shotwell!

adam

By: Sally

Sally — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:26:09 +0000

Hi,

I installed Shotwell 0.5.2 on Lucid Lynx. It seems to be very fast compared to f-spot.
But what I really miss is a screensaver. Is there any possibility to use a third-party program that reads the most prefered photos from the Shotwell db? Or will this be a feature in 0.6 as you, Adam, wrote on your mailing list? And when will version 0.6 be released?

Another thing I miss is a possibility to add versions to a photo. As I got a DSLR which shots multiple photos, I’d like to have the best photo in front and the rest of the series behind.

Love, Sally

By: Adam Dingle

Adam Dingle — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:20:41 +0000

Tags are in fact at the top of the to-do list, and Shotwell 0.5, which will be released in March, will include tags. Tags are in fact already partially implemented in the Subversion trunk.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:46:02 +0000

You say, “…but Shotwell doesn’t have tags yet…” as though it is just another thing which might come along given time, and as though there are more pressing needs (maybe there are, but I don’t understand what they might be).

The lack of tags is the one thing holding me back from adopting it. Without tags, it becomes impractical to organise images through the manager (unless one has a superb memory for when a particular image was taken).

Tags change an application which merely lists images, into one which can be used to manage and organise them.

Surely it ought to be right at the top of your list of things to do. Just my opinion.

By: Adam Dingle

Adam Dingle — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:15:26 +0000

Glad to see all the interest in Shotwell on this thread. (I’m the founder and director of Yorba, creators of Shotwell). I’ll respond to some of the questions above. Shotwell’s import capability has no specific knowledge of F-Spot, but you should be able to import the folder containing all your F-Spot photos easily. At some point we’d like to be able to import edits and tags from F-Spot (see http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/139), but Shotwell doesn’t have tags yet so we can’t import those yet.

Shotwell does not support albums yet - that’s on our to-do list (see http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/81). Hopefully early next year.

By: Ben Asselstine

Ben Asselstine — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:40:30 +0000

Shotwell is licensed under the LGPL version 2.1 or later.

By: crafter

crafter — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:16:54 +0000

Grow up adam.

Just because a single app is changed you start “looking for a new distro”. Why can’t you just delete what you don’t want and add what you like.

Shotwell looks, well, plain. Guess I will have to evaluate how powerful it really is.

If it does not support albums, then it wont be suitable for me.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:52:00 +0000

I didn’t think fspot could make exposure and White balance adjustments? Which is sonething I’ve always missed from lightroom. I’ll have to go and check now as I’ll be happy if fspot can do this.

By: adam

adam — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:58:27 +0000

I think these are some really bad decisions coming out of canonical! Why are they trying to be so much like the mac? I use ubuntu because it is not a mac or windows! I guess I will start looking for a new distro!

By: digi

digi — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:18:14 +0000

looks primitive compared to f-spot -

how about migration from f-spot? Will it import f-spot’s library?