Shotwell – Open Source Photomanager

On the internet I came across an article about a new piece of open source software for managing your photo’s.

It is being called a combination of F-spot (brrr) and Picasa with the emphasis on the best features of both programs combined into one application.

I haven’t tried it yet. Maybe it’s because I see you no practical use in Picasa (and it’s proprietary software!) and I have always discouraged people to use F-spot. See my my review for more info on F-spot. I will therefore not make a review about this software.

However, at Ubuntu they seem to like F-spot and Shotwell so much that they have placed this software in their repositories. See this article.
Note: read the discussing below the article. It will give you an idea of how crappy F-spot and Shotwell really are. No self-respecting photographer (amateur and professional) would ever want to use this software. Or even consider it.

Screenshot from omgubuntu.co.uk (opens in a new window)

By searching the internet and reading several articles Shotwell seems just another simple application with limited and poor features. Just like F-spot this program will automatically sort your images by date which can be VERY frustrating while using it. You can also sort your images by tags. This will – in many cases – still result in a complete mix up of all your images, because tagged pictures will still be sorted by date.