Comments on: f-spot 0.5.0.1 – Remember the Rubik’s cube

By: true_human

true_human — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:13:04 +0000

Can I just say that this is the most awesome feature of any photo software ever. This feature alone makes F-Spot the killer photo app. I have just spent about a week trying to merge my photo collections with my wife’s and this is by far and away the best way to do it.

On a side note, Gerald, during my ‘merging’ efforts, I wrote a python script that will do what you want – compare two image md5sums using only the image data. Its not especially nice, but it does the job (or did for me anyway). Email me if you want it, I don’t want to just put it online as it’s rather dangerous if misused.

You also might want to look at jhead – this is the command line app I used in my script.

F-Spot is a great tool, keep up the good work. Seriously, its about 90% of the way to ultimate perfection – when a few of the bigger bugs are fixed it will categorically be the best photo manager out there.

By: grigio

grigio — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:13:35 +0000

@Maxxer: I will monitor that bug, thanks

By: Maxxer

Maxxer — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:20:26 +0000

Grigio: bug #312613 is for you.
Gerald: sorry, no, I don’t know any…

By: Gerald

Gerald — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:51:05 +0000

“During the process the algorithm creates an unique md5 hash for your image data only (that means: not including exif/xmp data), and compares it to the ones present in db.”

Do you know a standalone program that does this: finding duplicates ignoring metadata?

By: grigio

grigio — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:44:55 +0000

I like F-Spot, but is possible to automatically discover the new photos without importing them every time? Maybe with inotify is possible to monitor a specific directory for changes..

By: Morten Siebuhr

Morten Siebuhr — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:19:03 +0000

From the Ubuntu bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/f-spot/+bug/271895), it is still uncertain if F-Spot 0.5.? will end up in Ubuntu 8.10.

By: Maxxer

Maxxer — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:01:25 +0000

The bundled libraries are there for a reason: in mono-addins there are some modified strings, in case of flickrnet F-Spot supports Zooomr export, which the original library doesn’t. As soon as those “issues” are fixed there is no reason to keep them bundled!

By: David Nielsen

David Nielsen — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:55:58 +0000

For Fedora this might be hard as you still carry a lot of bundled pieces of software like mono-addin, the packaging guidelines say we should (text is likely going to be changed to must) use system packages instead for amongst other things security reasons. We already carry a patch for the 4.4 f-spot for mono-addins to be converted to system library use. I will beg, plead and bribe in the hope that you consider making 0 prebundled libraries your goal for upcoming f-spot versions, it really makes the distributors job a lot easier and more managemable from a support prespective.

F-spot is an amazing application, I love it to bits and I am currently using the 0.5.0.1 release on this machine, every moment a pleasurable one from a user prespective. Fast, delightful and easy.

By: Wouter

Wouter — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:43:17 +0000

Ubuntu is at 0.4.4 and I don’t think the chances are high that they will be updating it anymore so close to release…