About F-Spot vs Picasa
Posted by Stuart Herbert @ 9:04 AM, Mon 29 May 06
Filed under: Gentoo
5 Comments
I hear you over the native port issue; but the question I keep coming back to is this: F-Spot is written using managed code, which needs its own runtime (Mono) in order to function. How does that make it any more native than Picasa, which relies on WINE? 
If it’s the Microsoft connection that makes you unhappy … F-Spot also owes its underlying technological heritage to Microsoft, does it not?
I have no numbers to back this up, but having imported the same image library into both F-Spot and Picasa, I’m much happier with Picasa. I find Picasa performs much faster, doesn’t crash at all (unlike F-Spot, alas), and it allows me to see the folders that I have already organised my image library into. Add to that the better editing toolsm and imho F-Spot has been well and truly knocked off any throne it may have been sitting on up to now.
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May 29th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
I would say digikam is worth considering though - I currently use that for most of my editing and it works really well. It is also a truly native Linux program that has improved massively. I wrote a post about how good it was several months ago. I am going to take a look at Picasa but if it is really written using Qt I don’t see the big issue in producing a native port of it either. I really haven’t had that much time to read up on it as yet though…
May 29th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Picasa doesn’t run on my ibook with Gentoo, that’s enough
June 25th, 2006 at 7:37 pm
I ran f-spot on my SuSe 10.1 (and 10) and was totaly dissatisfied with it. It’s a very weak program and within a day of tinkering with it, I managed to make it crash permanently. Picassa on the other hand runs, even if a little slow. I wish it was better integrated into the Linux desktop but I love this program. I think it’s one of the strongest image organizers on the Windows platform and it certainly beats f-spot hands down, and you can’t beat the price. I recently installed digiKam and it looks solid (I haven’t been able to crash it yet like I did with f-spot) but I am so much familiar with Picassa2 at this point I hardly use digiKam.
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December 12th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
I first tried gThumb but it had an extreme lack of features, it’s auto correct thingy didn’t do anything significant and it sometimes crashed. F-Spot crashed when I plugged in my camera and crashed every 5 minutes or so with external images rendering it a useless program. Digikam is the only one that works. It rarely crashes, has ten times the features of it’s ugly gnome counterparts and it actually fixes the image with auto correct instead of making it worse. I am really ticked of by gnome. It was junk 3 years ago (last time I used it) and is still junk, just buggier now.
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