Are there any programs like Picasa which run on Linux? I'm after something for organising my digital and scanned photographs. I don't want anything very clever, Picasa is actually pretty close to what I want except that I'd prefer to be able to manipulate the *real* folder hierarchy rather than a pseudo-hierarchy.
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:37:13PM -0500, chrisisbd@leary2.csoft.net wrote:
Are there any programs like Picasa which run on Linux? I'm after
You could try F-Spot http://f-spot.org/Main_Page and GThumb http://gthumb.sourceforge.net/
Thanks Adam
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:20:48PM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:37:13PM -0500, chrisisbd@leary2.csoft.net wrote:
Are there any programs like Picasa which run on Linux? I'm after
You could try F-Spot http://f-spot.org/Main_Page and GThumb http://gthumb.sourceforge.net/
Thanks for the pointers, I'll take a look, although they're both Gnome apps I think they'll run OK for me as I have the Gnome libraries installed.
On Thursday 11 May 2006 22:37, chrisisbd@leary2.csoft.net wrote:
Are there any programs like Picasa which run on Linux? I'm after something for organising my digital and scanned photographs. I don't want anything very clever, Picasa is actually pretty close to what I want except that I'd prefer to be able to manipulate the *real* folder hierarchy rather than a pseudo-hierarchy.
I don't know much about Picasa itself, but I use digikam for organising my digital photos, and it's really very good.
You can use tags to arrange and search your images, but you also have the images in real directories which you can change around and drop in there and it all plays nicely together, obviously.
The system for getting hold of your digital images from a camera, etc is also intuitive.
The only idea I think it's missing as a killer feature is a live full-text search field at the top below the menus for working with the tags, but as an application it got me bothering to tinker for hours tagging and organising my images for fun again, which is kind of a sign of quality in my eyes.
:)
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:40:56PM +0100, Ten wrote:
On Thursday 11 May 2006 22:37, chrisisbd@leary2.csoft.net wrote:
Are there any programs like Picasa which run on Linux? I'm after something for organising my digital and scanned photographs. I don't want anything very clever, Picasa is actually pretty close to what I want except that I'd prefer to be able to manipulate the *real* folder hierarchy rather than a pseudo-hierarchy.
I don't know much about Picasa itself, but I use digikam for organising my digital photos, and it's really very good.
You can use tags to arrange and search your images, but you also have the images in real directories which you can change around and drop in there and it all plays nicely together, obviously.
The system for getting hold of your digital images from a camera, etc is also intuitive.
The only idea I think it's missing as a killer feature is a live full-text search field at the top below the menus for working with the tags, but as an application it got me bothering to tinker for hours tagging and organising my images for fun again, which is kind of a sign of quality in my eyes.
The killer for me is that it's a KDE application and seems to need quite a bit if KDE infrastructure to work.
On Thursday 11 May 2006 22:37, chrisisbd@leary2.csoft.net wrote:
Are there any programs like Picasa which run on Linux? I'm after something for organising my digital and scanned photographs. I don't want anything very clever, Picasa is actually pretty close to what I want except that I'd prefer to be able to manipulate the *real* folder hierarchy rather than a pseudo-hierarchy.
Sorry to spam, but last night I couldn't help thinking the picasa on linux thing rang a bell, I thought I'd seen something about it.
Something drew me to May's LXF, where I found what had been bugging me. On page 7, there's an article about Picasa 2 "for Linux" being worked on by Google (standalone winelib/crossover port apparently) and in the closed beta stage.
"Google's ambition is to make Picasa 2 as easy to install as the Windows version, and though CrossOver technology will be used, users won't need to purchase any extra software to run the application."
Upon successful porting, future Picasa versions are also to be written specifically to wine's APIs so that they work on windows and other platforms.
I'm not a picasa user, so it didn't jump easily to mind at the time, but this may be interesting to yourself. :)
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