MaPiVi: March 2010 Archives

In OMG! Ubuntu!, a report that gThumb replaces F-Spot in the Ubuntu Netbook Remix (likely so the heft of Mono can be expunged) actually goes on to say that not only does gThumb not use Mono, but it does more than F-Spot.

For my particular workflow, gThumb has become my main image editor.

Way back in November, OMG! Ubuntu! took a look at gThumb 2.x, going so far as to ask in the title, "Is The New gThumb A Potential F-Spot Killer?"

Of course, I think the answer to that question is an unqualified "yes."

I've been experimenting with "calling" the GIMP in through gThumb to do some extra editing on an image, with the goal being more control over editing (gThumb doesn't sharpen, probably the biggest omission for Web-photo editing) without losing the IPTC metadata in JPEGs that photojournalists routinely use to drop caption and credit information into the image file. I've had a mix of success/not-so-much-success, but I'll continue testing until I know for sure if and how gThumb and GIMP can be used together without killing out the IPTC data (which GIMP, Krita and just about every other Linux/Unix image editor cheerfully kills when saving; exceptions to this unwarranted destruction of JPEG data are gThumb, digiKam and MaPiVi, the best of the latter being, in my opinion, gThumb).