Comments on: F-Spot 0.7.1 Released!

By: hb

hb — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:06:45 +0000

Is the “remove originals after import” operation also available for PTP connections? And would it also be risky for this type of connections? From my understanding, the “buggy card drivers” problem should not apply here.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:35:33 +0000

THANK YOU! for adding “remove from camera” and for clarifying why this could be a bad thing to do. Over the years with several cameras, I’ve never had an issue with mounting cards and manipulating images directly, manually deleting via the cameras UI would be a huge PITA.

By: Ruben

Ruben — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:59:44 +0000

I don’t see it happening for 0.8. We are probably going to focus on getting photo support to work well. In time we probably will, but currently it’s rather low on the priority list.

Once the architecture is reworked a bit it should be much easier to add this.

By: Ruben

Ruben — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:57:58 +0000

Not sure how we’d make multi-page TIFF work, evince might be a better tool for that.

By: Ruben

Ruben — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:57:10 +0000

Our Taglib# work is in gitorious: http://gitorious.org/taglib-sharp

It lives in the photo-support branch. We are going to work on getting this merged with mainline Taglib# once it moves to git. Should be fully compatible though, there’s no API breakage compared to mainline Taglib# that I’m aware of.

By: Ruben

Ruben — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:55:28 +0000

I don’t think I mentioned conversion anywhere. This is purely about parsing metadata (for display / extracting data during import).

By: Janne

Janne — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:49:10 +0000

Michael, be careful. The main reason this may not be a good idea is because buggy card drivers are quite common in digital cameras and other electronics. They work fine as long as the camera does the formatting and all file manipulation on the card (that’s what the manufacturer mostly tests). But when other devices – like your computer – does something to the card they may do things a little differently (legal and according to spec, just differently) and that can start triggering bugs that may leave you with lost images or an unreadable card somewhere down the line.

I never let anything else touch my memory cards for this reason. And it’s a really good idea to reformat the card if you move it from one camera to another too.

By: Janne

Janne — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:44:28 +0000

Ruben, thanks. Um, by “Raw converter” you mean F-spot has a built-in one nowadays? I’ve always used UFRaw through the right-click menu to develop my raw files; is that option gone now?

By: Brad Jensen

Brad Jensen — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:09:49 +0000

It would be nice to have a checkbox on F-Spot’s Importer to auto rotate images. Some people like them the way they are, and many people like them auto rotated. Having the check box would allow for both choices.

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:41:43 +0000

Hello Ruben,

that sounds great! Will F-Spot 0.8 support video files too (like Banshee did)? My girlfriend switched with their thousends of photos to Linux and like F-Spot a lot. She took a lot of videos with her camera too but can’t import/ view them in F-Spot. Many of these videos are depending on taken pictures too.