When I import my photos to F-Spot it always changes the time in the EXIF-information. Every single file is edited. F-Spot should not do this, since it is importing, not modifying, which I ordered. I did not find any way to prevent it from doing so. Not even setting the files read-only.

When I tried to convince somebody to try Ubuntu, he tells me "OK, but I need to import my pictures, with the preferences I have entered on Windows Gallery (tags, and marks). I have a lot of pictures on my computer, and I have spend lot of time to organize them."

I checked this option on F-Spot and I didn't find anything to do this. This could be a good idea to help Windows' users (and why not MAC OS' users which I don't really know) to migrate under Ubuntu (Linux in general).

I know that this should not be a priority for the community, but if it interest a developer, I am pretty sure that this option will be very useful.

Currently, pictures are organized like this:
Pictures/2008/07/01
Pictures/2008/07/05


Everyone organizes their large photo collections by full date because
1) this is how the pictures are taken (in events that typicaly fall on one date)
2) this is how typically other photo management programs group them (see Vista Photo Gallery, Picasa, etc.)
3) you need to be able to get at the folders from outside of the application. This is critical for backup/recovery, passing to friends, etc.
4) Having the folder marked as day only makes it not practical to add a description to the folder name

What I'm talking about is that on import, f-spot should by default create folders such
Pictures/2008-07-01
Pictures/2008-07-05
This is the best starting point, since 90% of the time, each album is separated by day. The date should be pulled in from exif data. I actually organize my albums by year, then date + description. For example,
Pictures/2008/2008-07-01 Birthday Party
Pictures/2008/2008-07-05 Camping
This should be configurable as everyone has their own preferences. Yes, even this format should be supported
Pictures/2008/07/01
Pictures/2008/07/05
but it should not be the default.

You should be able to edit the folder name from within F-Spot as well as from the file manager. F-Spot should be able to recognize the change and not loose any categorization for the affected photos.

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well the f-spot photo screen saver goes too fast. I can't enjoy the photos.

F-spot is getting half decent. It's actually one of my favourite apps oddly enough but it has lots of room to improve.

I propose an easy way to share photo's/albums over a local area network for example. This could be done using something like bonjour similar to how frostwire and itunes can share music libraries over the network.

The reason I suggest this is that my brother and I often go places together and one of us will carry a video camera while the other one is snapping photos, instead of both of us having to set up and tag the same photos twice it would be nice for one of us to do it and then both open F-spot on our laptops and easily share, I have tons of photo's of him he would be interested in if only he could browse them.

When you have 6 people in your family all using Ubuntu at different locations this is a small feature that is very desirable.

If you want to see your F-Spot gallery, you can't just right-click and autoresize the pics to full-screen.

F-Spot is currently an entirely single-user application. Whilst it is possible for two users to share the database and working directory, it's far from ideal.

F-Spot needs to have multi-user capabilities to allow connection to a central database and the use of a central image repository.

I'm only talking about read permissions here. One user would be the "updater" while others would have read-only permission plus the ability to tag their own favourite images perhaps.

Going to a full locking mechanism to allow updates in transactions is perhaps a bit far to go. But the ability to connect to another users database and view their album would be great.

I think that we should support the development of the system wide thumbnailer service detailed here:

http://pvanhoof.be/blog/index.php/2008/09/24/thumbnailer-specification-and-prot otype

This is a much better architecture than everyone implementing their own thumbnailer inside their apps.

This service could then be used by Nautilus, F-Spot, tracker, etc...

There's already a good start, with a freedesktop spec and an implementation for Hildon/Maemo.

What do you think?

When you tag a Photo in F-Spot for a person, place or event, all it can have is a name. This is not very useful.

A research team from CMU came up with a way to repair photos by patching missing/dodgy sections with similar ones from other photos.

I propose we build it into our photo tools so that users are able to automatically fix their pictures in a natural looking way automatically. Granted they may end up with a few foreign trees in the photo, or the shoes might not match at the end, but users would not be able to determine the real photo.

Neither OSX nor windows seems to do this yet, but it has many practical applications. More information is available here:
Scene Completion Using Millions of Photographs (Thanks Ubuwu for finding it)