-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2016-09-03 23:09, Dave Howorth wrote:
My first annoyance was gimp. It seems to have decided that when I open a jpg, I haven't 'opened' it, I have 'imported' it. More practically annoying is that when I select part of a jpg image and try to save it, it doesn't. It tries to save some xcf thing and I have to 'export' to a jpg. Which wouldn't be too bad except it still keeps the image status as unsaved, giving me one more piece of information I have to hold in my head instead of having the computer remember the obvious stuff for me. So how do I open a jpg, cut a bit out of it, and save that as jpg with least grief?
Yes, it is a nuisance.
My second annoyance is photo management. I use LXDE, not KDE and not Gnome. I use a couple of photo managers for different purposes. Tonight I'm experimenting with the use where I've historically used f-spot. So my first guess was to use shotwell.
That's the one I use.
But I'm stuck at the first hurdle. It apparently can import f-spot data, but it seems to expect me to know where that is. I don't; why can't it find it? Plus (a) it keeps wingeing about dconf not working and (b) the help won't popup because it tries to launch firefox and it doesn't have permission (and I'm not going to give it permission!). So any advice on how to drive shotwell, particularly importing an f-spot database, or where to find help, or alternative programs that could be a substitute would be gratefully received.
Well, you have to allow it to use firefox if you want to read the help. You might create a new user and try there. It appears that different programs save data about the photos differently, yes. Some inside the photos, some outside in a directory, some in a database in a completely different place (kde tools). - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlfLPgAACgkQja8UbcUWM1yDkAD+IqudOuaN4/FVXlIA3D/gS0Yi EJ6a8u7rB4/UrH6fR4gA/RdTK5fytCKEO83ouoDB6kaBh52O23i/HlU9wuTFPZ50 =wWHD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org