Maybe all software sucks or maybe It’s just me, but there doesn’t seem to be anything I can’t find problems with during the first few minutes I’m using something.
While everyone seems to be praising f-spot I find its date handling during imports pretty bad. It seems to be throwing away the time the photo was actually taken and using the import time instead. Clearly that’s not desirable when importing all the photos you took during your long holiday.
After some trying I did manage to import everything with satisfactory results after hacking the code a bit. In the process, however, I ended up removing gimp and gphoto2 which depended on libgphoto2 which I had to rebuild because I had to upgrade libexif because exif, which I thought I could use to fix the dates, needed newer version. In the end it was all for nothing. I just hacked f-spot to use the file timestamp instead of current time when EXIF tags are missing.
Once I got the photos imported using f-spot seems kind of nice. The UI could use some polish, though, some things feel ambiguous and cryptic, and I find some interactions missing or unexpected. And at least in the beginning the monthly timeline is just feeling too coarse.
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