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Idea #20569: Replace F-Spot by Solang to have a new and better photo manager

bug This idea was marked as being not considered for implementation the 24 February 11.
Written by BMikeX the 8 Jul 09 at 14:58. Category: Graphics. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: Won't implement
Rationale
Solang is a free photo manager that acts as a front-end for directory based local storage as well as remote photo-storage systems, as can be said, on the "Cloud". It also has better performance and lower system requirements than existing photo managers.

Advantages:
- organisation by tags, search by tags (it's easy and simple)

Improvement:
- Improve organisation:
Use category before tags
Example: Category = Friends, a tag in category friends: John
It's for better organisation and better navigation in photos
- Editor: correct red eyes, others like digikam edit tools
- Integration with GNOME, Telepathy ?,
others GNOME technologies (Zeigeist, ...) ?
- Geolocalisation
- Upload/import to/from services: flickr, facebook, twitter, ...
- Improvements to help for add photos and organisation
- Albums creation (like iPhoto)
- Face recognition for people

The big goal is to have a very good and new photo manager ready for GNOME 3.0 with the first 5 improvements.
For the editor: there is no need to have all functions like digikam: correct red eyes and improves photo's quality is a priority.

For information (from comments): Solang is available in Karmic repository. If you are on Karmic, install Solang and test it ;)

Example:
- To search: uses huts to be checked and it search photos automatically
- To edit: select photos by check of huts (on photos) (search can be used) and click on Edit bouton.
- Idem for export photos.

A little screenshot example:
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5592/capturefix.png

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Solution #2: Port FSpot to Vala and improve integration.
Written by yaknowwat the 8 Jul 09 at 20:53.
I vote toward porting FSpot to Vala to improve speed along with improving pieces of it during the port.
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Solution #3: Use (and improve) Solang
Written by Ubuwu the 9 Jul 09 at 11:28.
Solang is a free photo manager that acts as a front-end for directory based local storage as well as remote photo-storage systems, as can be said, on the "Cloud". It also has better performance and lower system requirements than existing photo managers.

See http://santanu-sinha.blogspot.com/2009/06/solang.html
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Solution #4: phraymd
Written by antistress the 14 Sep 09 at 00:28.
phraymd, like SOLANG, is a new project for GNOME.
I've found phraymd to be faster and more stable (actually it IS stable)
phraymd is very good at tagging and already has geolocalisation
there is a powerful search bar (that acts like a command line for advanced users)
it is Thumbnail Managing Standard compliant http://jens.triq.net/thumbnail-spec/ (thumbnails are shared between phraymd, nautilus, gimp...)
It's written using Python, GTK+ and exiv2
https://launchpad.net/phraymd
Package for Ubuntu 9.10 available from PPA here: https://launchpad.net/~damien-moore/+archive/ppa

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cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 8 Jul 09 at 22:01
The rationale describes only one big problem with f-spot: mono. So why not use Picasa instead? Why develop an entirely new application that duplicates both of them?

BMikeX wrote on the 9 Jul 09 at 14:27
Picasa is not opensource and use Wine...
Why develop an entirely new app ?
Because it can be full featured and use GNOME technology and not Microsoft technology.
The Goal is to organize photos easyly for the user, create albums based on tags, search photo's easyly.
Tags like people, date, etc.
But I'm not a dev...
Solang is appenrently cool but I don't know it...

BMikeX wrote on the 9 Jul 09 at 14:37
I've a quick look at Solang screenshots...
It's apparently cool...
But Solang is writted in Mono or GTK+ ?
If it's writted in GTK+ but not in Mono, I vote for it when the idea is approved.

BMikeX wrote on the 9 Jul 09 at 17:22
OK. Solang is not writted using Mono it's very good ^^.
Now, Solang is apparently a good solution to replace F-Spot.
But need category (see example in the rationale). I think category - tags is better for organization than only tags.
The rest in the rationale is good to add in Solang.
Sorry for my English, I'm Belgian (French language).

cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 9 Jul 09 at 20:19
Solang is already in the Ubuntu repositories for 9.10.

If this is an idea to replace F-Spot with Solang in the default installation, please edit rationale to say so. Please be persuasive - a myriad of F-spot users will be annoyed and inconvenienced by the change so really sell the advantages of the change!

If you would like to change the title, just leave a comment (with the new title, of course) so an admin can do that for you.

If this is still an idea to develop a new photo organizer in competition with F-spot and Picas and Solang, then please edit your rationale to include your criteria that it must be open source.

BMikeX wrote on the 10 Jul 09 at 10:47
Ok. The goal is to replace F-Spot by Solang.
But Solang need improvements (like category - tags and not only tags for easy organization). I edit the rationale later for a better rationale ;)
Solang have a work, now there is no reason to develop an another app...

BMikeX wrote on the 10 Jul 09 at 12:20
I think de title can be changed to:
Replace F-Spot by Solang to have a new and better photo manager.

Thank you ;)

antistress wrote on the 29 Jul 09 at 00:16
i'd prefer phraymd since it has in-photo tagging
https://launchpad.net/phraymd

BMikeX wrote on the 6 Aug 09 at 22:47
I'll update this idea with new screenshots of my concept.

Also, I've other ideas.
But for the moment I don't work on it because
I study my exams.
All that should be ok for September.

antistress wrote on the 21 Nov 09 at 02:11
phraymd now has package for Ubuntu 9.10 available from PPA here: https://launchpad.net/~damien-moore/+archive/ppa

cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 17 Dec 09 at 12:31
Changed title per author request
Deleted Solution #1, which was simply a referral to Solution #3

Vahan Harutyunyan (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 17 Feb 11 at 17:43
Shotwell is the default photo manager in Ubuntu 10.10


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