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What are the advantages of using Shotwell? What are the disadvantages?

David Siegel
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The specification for this decision is here

Here (Sorry, this show has been removed from Blip.) is a video clip where we discussed Shotwell (and other apps) at the Ubuntu Developer Summit.

A.B.
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Jorge Castro
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Essentially the choice was made upstream (by Gnome). But there are a lot of advantages:

  • No Mono
  • It's lightweight and crash free
  • Better integrated with the Gnome Desktop
  • It has support for the RAW format
  • Some basic editing capabilities

As stated on the comment above the elimination of Mono from the default install would be a huge bonus, less occupied space, and less conspiracy theories evolving Microsoft and .Net running about.

paulo.albuquerque
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