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Shotwell



Summary: Recommendation of Shotwell for the upcoming Ubuntu release (April 2010), as a key part of Mono replacements

CONTRARY to common misinterpretation (deception from Novell's management), Mono is not legally safe because Microsoft has already defined boundaries for its use and deviation is not allowed either, which means that if this "Free" software (more like "Open Core") gets modified, then Microsoft has already threatened to sue.



Canonical has new management now. Jane Silber has the opportunity to remove the problematic parts from Ubuntu and we have already provided advice in:

  1. Gnote is Alive, New Release Available
  2. The Case for a Mono-Free Ubuntu and Novell's Case for a Mono Fee Ubuntu
  3. With gThumb and Gnote in Ubuntu 10.04, Default Install Would be Leaner, Mono Free
  4. F-Spot (Mono) Can Still be Removed from Next Ubuntu
  5. Avoid Mono to Put Back the *NIX in GNU/Linux


gThumb is just one among many packages that can replace F-Spot while replacing Tomboy with Gnote should be trivial. Gnote does have an active maintainer.

Over at Linuxers, Shotwell has just been proposed as a replacement for F-Spot in Ubuntu 10.04 (codename "Lucid Lynx"). It is worth looking into.

All of you would know by now that Ubuntu Devels are planning to remove GIMP as a default program. This has led to a lot of discussions among them about the default photo manager for Ubuntu Lucid that will compensate for it. They are not supposed to be as powerful as GIMP but should be able to handle some minimal image manipulations. In this article, we will look into the 3 top competitors F-Spot, Shotwell and Solang.

And we will see what all features each of them aims to provide to be considered as the default photo manager cum image manipulator and viewer for Lucid.

Shotwell

Shotwell is an opensource photo manager designed for Gnome Desktop Environment. Instead of just being a photo organizer it is capable of doing some small image manipulations too like reducing red-eye, rotate, crop and mirror photos.


Here is the project's homepage. We have just added it to our Wiki resources.

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