Adding Máirín's point, it looks like the bug related for importing pictures from camera is still unfixed according to the roadmap https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Photos/Roadmap Listed tasks need to be completed first before making the decision to adopt Gnome Photos as default. Only issue with gthumb is the lack of non-destructive editing feature found on similar application. Luya On 20/07/16 09:31 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Hi, > > On 07/20/2016 11:05 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: >> We've discussed replacing Shotwell many times in the past. I believe >> consensus was that gThumb would be better, but we would instead wait >> for GNOME Photos to mature a bit more so we don't change the default >> photo app so many times. Photos is pretty clearly more polished than >> Shotwell at this point, and I think we're ready to make the switch. Of >> course it is still under active development, but let's not make perfect >> the enemy of the good. If you care about this change, please either +1 >> or object. > > Just some comments from an active heavy user of Fedora media > applications including photography applications: > > Shotwell for a long time was the only GNOMEish application that I > could use to reliably and safely import photos from my dSLRs. The key > feature is the ability to import the folders using a specific layout > on disk based on timestamps in each photo's EXIF data. This means I > can merge photos from multiple cameras (2 dSLRs and multiple smart > phones and extended family members' cameras & FB downloads) into a > single filesystem on our family's media center and in our cloud backup > (so we can view photos based on date / family event rather than by > whatever device happened to take the picture.) > > Shotwell's ability to do the import is not perfect - frequently if you > use a large memory card in your camera (say ~32 GB) it would > freeze/hang during import and occasionally crash. Because of the > instability, I sought out another app for importing recently; I > discovered gthumb now does it - beautifully. It's UI fits in with the > rest of GNOME even better than Shotwell, and it is more robust than > Shotwell in that it doesn't appear to freeze or crash during large > imports. > > It does not appear GNOME Photos has a method of importing photos off > of a camera. So taking Shotwell out for GNOME Photos potentially means > removing the functionality of photo import off of cameras. > > I am not going to tell you whether or not that is the right thing to > do for Workstation, and I am certainly capable of dnf installing > gthumb for my own needs. Swapping out Shotwell *will* remove a current > out-of-the-box Workstation functionality, however, and I think when > making the decision you should be aware of this. > > Sorry for the long-windedness (hopefully illustrates the full user > context,) and I hope this helps in some way. > > ~m > -- > desktop mailing list > desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Luya Tshimbalanga Graphic & Web Designer E: luya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx W: http://www.coolest-storm.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
