Originally Posted By: NJC
uc50 - it is my Canon digital. F-Spot seems to detect it OK since I deleted the database ... it's not so much the actual camera that's a problem, but the accompanying software (Picasa). Picasa works WAY better in XP.
Picasa isn't actually even a linux program - it is the Windows version running under WINE, which for all intents and purposes emulates a Windows environment (even though WINE stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator). It suffers from all of the performance and interface consistency failings that all programs running under some type of emulation suffer. I think F-Spot has some Picasa Web Album capabilities (in addition to Flickr and some others) if that's why you were using Picasa.
If you don't care much for F-Spot (or Mono, the open source version of M$'s .NET framework on top of which F-Spot is programmed) and you do not mind running a KDE-based program in your Gnome desktop, I *really* liked digiKam which is available in the normal repositories.
uc50 - it is my Canon digital. F-Spot seems to detect it OK since I deleted the database ... it's not so much the actual camera that's a problem, but the accompanying software (Picasa). Picasa works WAY better in XP.
Picasa isn't actually even a linux program - it is the Windows version running under WINE, which for all intents and purposes emulates a Windows environment (even though WINE stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator). It suffers from all of the performance and interface consistency failings that all programs running under some type of emulation suffer. I think F-Spot has some Picasa Web Album capabilities (in addition to Flickr and some others) if that's why you were using Picasa.
If you don't care much for F-Spot (or Mono, the open source version of M$'s .NET framework on top of which F-Spot is programmed) and you do not mind running a KDE-based program in your Gnome desktop, I *really* liked digiKam which is available in the normal repositories.