[svlug] Photo sorting software

[David E. Fox]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:14:09 -0700
Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:

> I think the point is:  when you say 'import all 2000 images' (something
> I would assume an app like F-Spot is designed specifically for), that it
> would NOT load all of them into RAM at once. ;^)

I would certainly hope not, assuming such images are a couple hundred K
apiece. I have just a 4 mp camera, and the average size of an image is
about 700-800K, depending on available compression.

Unfortunately, Picaaa also seems to have trouble bringing in new images
(it seems to want to read them all in, and then dies having exhausted
some resource or other... could be low on disk space as it suggests,
though). At any rate, it failed to bring in new pictures I have on the
camera (and I have about 300-odd pictures in the camera at present).

Digikam does a better job in this regard. I tried gwenview a little bit
as well, but I didn't like its interface, and it only saw filenames
rather than showing thumbnails of the pictures in the camera.

> amaroK, for example, seems to deal just fine with my 11GB of ripped CD audio.

But you aren't importing a couple hundred songs at once, are you :)?

Amarok (1.4.2, currently, on Etch) has worked somwwhat OK (besides, I
like the interface a lot better than rhythmbox) although I've had
lockups when trying to use a mysql database recently -- currently, I
use the SqLite, and I'd much rather use mysql). There have been times
in the recent past where I had seemingly lost my entire collection (of
course not the songs themselves, only Amarok's notion of where the
songs were). 



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