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[paulwb]

Hi,

I am using F-Spot (http://www.f-spot.org) as photo management application and to connect Bibble and F-Spot together I wrote two F-Spot plugins I published yet to the F-Spot Mailinglist.

If you want to read this a bit better:

http://purecodes.org/f-spot/UsingFSpotAndBibble.html


The Add-Ins:

- Send selected files from F-Spot to a Bibble work queue
- Import processed files back to F-Spot (this could be useful using
other software to process raw files, too)

You can install the extensions by adding them (if you have F-Spot 0.4.0, don't know if you need even 0.4.1) as extension repository (Edit -> Manage Extensions). The url:

http://purecodes.org/f-spot/

I explained my workflow, if you are interested on the url given above.

Regards
Paul.

[lenn-art]

* subscribing to this thread.

Why do you prefer F-spot above Digikam? I tried them both, but liked digikam more. Maybe you can pull me over

[carpman]

Someone thinking of doing same thing for digikam but have not heard anything more about it.

http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-imaging/2007-June/005286.html

[paulwb]

lenn-art: I know the digikam 2 years ago. I heard a lot about it and I know that know it has a lot of nice features and so on. To be honest, I use F-Spot because I get used to it, I am using it for two years now and I did not try digikam any more.

Another reason is that F-Spot is Gnome/GTK, it integrates with the gnome desktop and beagle (I use Gnome), has export targets to gallery2, flickr, cd, and so on, allows tagging (writes tags to image files), searching by tags, filename and comments, supports versions, is extendible with export extensions and add-ins...

Don't know if DigiKam does all this, too.

If I have time I'll have a look at DigiKam and I'll tell you my impressions.

Regards
Paul.

[carpman]

to answer your questions on digikam;

yes yes yes yes

I prefer kde which is why i use digikam but am sure f-spot is good as well.

[paka]

f-spot works fine in kde. *most* kde and gnome applications will work fine in the other window manager.

[lenn-art]

I'm running Gnome & KDE in a X environment I use a theme similar to the X theme and the difference isn't big.

[paulwb]

paka: of course, but thats not the point. KDE and Gnome do have a different desktop environment, a different look and feel, different icons. And, the most important thing, different usability concepts and standards that are followed by the application which are delivered with and for the respective desktop environment.

I you are used to use one of them you won't change easily to the other one.

I just took a look at DigiKam... and, sorry, but I just can't live with the KDE usability concepts and the KDE controls. I know, its just a thing of getting used to it.

regards
Paul.

[Marco7]

I dont know if I am alone in that case, but sending files to a workqueue is a good feature, but I d really prefer to share tags, IPTC and all those meta-information between whatever software I use (personally digikam and bibble).

I d like to find time to build some plugins for digikam but couldnt find some yet.

[lenn-art]

You're not alone, but the difficulty is that in that case several programs has to use one, shared database. So, every developer should use the same database (like MySQL) and the same tables etc. It would be fine, but i think it's also an Utopia.

A synchronization between programs through sidecars (like XMP) would be an option, but every time when you change something in program A, program B has to detect this change in an existing file!
For example: you add the IPTCtag 'dog' to picture_1234.jpg in Bibble. Because the file picture_1234.jpg & his sidecar picture_1234.xmp are importerd by F-spot, the entry exists in the database. So would a minor change spotted when you start a program?

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