F-Spot Photo Album
In my quest to stay windows free, I need to be able to catalog and modify photos. None of the existing cataloging software in Debian was anything more than a database which was keeping meta-data about photos stored on disk. Ok, I am a developer and even I wouldn't use that kind of thing for very long.. not very easy to use. Thankfully, there is software called F-Spot which is pretty much a direct port of the Adobe Photoshop Album. This is a good thing for me because that is the exact software that I used in windows. !!Installation Installation was a little bit of a pain because I use stable Debian.. So I had to enable an unstable repository in the Synaptic Package Manager to find the software. F-Spot (f-spot package) depends on the latest version of Gnome and a bunch of other stuff. So I was apprehensive about installing it. I did it anyway..
Results
Well, after the upgrade to a bunch of stuff Gnome started to misbehave.. Whenever I would login I would get a lovely gnome panel already running error dialog.. I searched around the web and really came up empty.. except it seems that gnome keeps preferences in the user home directory in a folder named .gnome2. After a bit of trial and error, I was able to solve my problem by:
- Login as a different user
- Delete the ~/.gnome2 folder of the messed up user. Actually I just moved it to ~/.gnome2.bak just in case I really hosed up the system.
- Login as the previously messed up user.
That's it.. Now I have pretty good photo management software and a fully working "unstable" gnome desktop.. We'll see how unstable it truly is.