Photo management

Jacek Poplawski · 2010-10-02 19:15:42

Do you know any other application for management of photo collections, other than digikam?
In fact I don't want to answer from people who heard about such thing, I need some feedback from people who are using it.
I am aware of Picasa, I was using it for a while on Windows computers, never tried it on Linux and I use Linux on my desktop.
I know that there is something like that for Gnome (fspot?), but never was able to make it work.

I need only two things:
- display RAW files (not just JPG)
- move photos with mouse from one folder to another

Digikam is heavy and slow. Things like gqview or geeqie aren't good for management, they are just viewers.
What do you use?

karol · 2010-10-02 19:24:35

So Picasa is an option or not? It's in the archstuff repo [1] so you can give it a go w/o investing too much time. Check if it supports _your_ RAW files [2]. It can be cpu-intensive (it runs in wine).

[1]

[archstuff]
# AUR's most voted packages
Server = http://archstuff.vs169092.vserver.de/$arch

[2] http://picasa.google.com/linux/download.html
Better RAW support
Now you can work with RAW files from the Canon 30D, the Nikon D200, Adobe DNG files, and more.

Last edited by karol (2010-10-02 19:30:07)

Jacek Poplawski · 2010-10-02 19:38:05

I search for something faster and simpler than digikam. But thanks for the link, I didn't know such repository exist

gorky · 2010-10-04 15:51:48

cześć Jacek,

have a look here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103846

generally speaking it's very difficult to find good photo management application that works with Linux, other than digikam.
I'm seriously considering buying Bibble Pro

Last edited by gorky (2010-10-04 15:56:07)

Stebalien · 2010-10-04 19:38:31

You can try gphoto2 or shotwell.

schivmeister · 2010-10-06 22:57:26

Hey wait, you have digikam and so have showfoto. Why not use that? I just handled some CR2s a few days ago with showfoto. But of course, it still felt like a viewer to me with the RAWs, and everything KDE is naturally not snappy.

edit: forget it, i'm talking about the same thing

Last edited by schivmeister (2010-10-06 23:14:42)

zyghom · 2011-01-14 20:55:41

gorky wrote:

cześć Jacek,
have a look here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103846
generally speaking it's very difficult to find good photo management application that works with Linux, other than digikam.
I'm seriously considering buying Bibble Pro

I bought bibblepro some time ago but recently it does not work on Arch
some library errors
http://support.bibblelabs.com/forums/vi … 67&t=18536

Arch Linux

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