Why Shotwell?

[ceed <cdposter-gmane yahoo com>]

Hi,

I've been reading recently that Shotwell is going to be the new default  
photo management tool for Ubuntu (and maybe even in Gnome). I'm an avid  
F-Spot user but installed Shotwell just to check it out. I can not see any  
reason why this should replace F-Spot, and when I read about Shotwell as  
the "future if Linux photo management" there's never anything about why  
it's should be the future. What is it that F-Spot supposedly is missing  
making Shotwell a better option? I'm not an applications developer, so I  
if it's something under the hood justifying this change I would not see  
it. As for functionality I find F-Spot alone to be a reason for using  
Gnome over KDE. There's nothing like it one Linux as far as I can see. I'm  
also worrying that if this change happens F-Spot is going to be left by  
the wayside. Please do not make that happen.


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//ceed