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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When watching a slide show, it would be great to add the "play background song" option... the fading transition effect is well done and it only lacks this song option.... other thing is that I didn't find how to change time between photos... i found the default too large.

Sometimes you need to produce versions external or just imported them from another PC. Then this files are their own pictures in F-Spot; there is currently no way to merge them.

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.

F-Spot wants to manage lots of photos, but it is frustrating to use when the user wants to import a single or a few number of photos. Below are a list of reasons F-Spot is not good importing a single or few photos.

1. Netbook users cannot drag and drop between windows.
2. Cannot import single/few photo(s) directly from SD media disk (all photos are imported)
3. Only way to import single/few photo(s) is via PTP mode.
4. When PTP mode is broken, there is no way to import a single/few photo(s).
5. Waiting to load 700+ photos just to import a few is inefficient use of resources and time.

When a user encounters the above, frustration is guaranteed.

F-spot does not rescan image folder and always import the photos to the image folder in home. You can define a photo folder but f-spot does not rescan this folder for changes like amarok with the music folder.

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 importing photos into F-Spot, it seems to use a static file naming convention based on the date the photo was taken (assuming it's from the EXIF tag):

$PHOTO_DIR$/YYYY/MM/DD/$FILENAME$

It's good to automatically sort a file tree by date, but a single static configuration wouldn't meet the needs of all users. For example, I personally prefer (and use):

$PHOTO_DIR$/YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD/HHhMMmSSs.JPG

F-Spot currently does not allow a user to configure the file tree structure of their photo library.

I have a system with windows xp and ubuntu. In windows I use Windows Live Gallery to organize all my photos using tags. When I import all my photos with f-spot, the program shows for example:

Family/Peter/Party

But when I put the tags in Windows Live Gallery, tags appear like this:

Family
|_Peter
|__Party

Please, fix this issue in future versions.

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?