Potential Future Replacement for F-Spot Enters Ubuntu

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2009-06-24 08:07:50 UTC
Modified: 2009-06-24 08:07:50 UTC

Summary: Solang enters Karmic Koala repositories

AWARENESS of the questions surrounding Mono has increased considerably and The Nixed Report publishes a detailed essay on the subject. There are also those insisting that it's "just a tool," but the point worth making is that this tool fits well in the repositories, without the ramifications of being passed directly from the distributor on the ISOs. And speaking of repositories, Solang has just been added to Ubuntu's, so hopefully as it matures it can replace F-Spot as the default image manager.

Ironic announcement from Luca Falavigna to announce that Solang is now included in Ubuntu Karmic Koala repositories.

It is another small step in the right direction. Ubuntu pondered replacing even the GIMP with F-Spot. ⬆

Comments

Needs Sunlight

2009-06-24 14:40:14

F-Spot has always been poor even not counting the mono problem and not adding any functionality over that of Digikam. However, Solang being new brings some fresh attention to the area.

http://www.stefanoforenza.com/solang-is-a-new-photo-manager/

One of the areas is that newer people are being introdcued to C++ and finding that it is excellent for developing cross-platform applications.

lalala

2009-06-24 15:00:11

A link to forenza, who just happens to be one of Roy's shills and a regular in the IRC channel.

_Hicham_

2009-07-07 00:52:29

To install solang on Fedora 11, please visit the following page :

http://hicham.iblogger.org/FedoraRepo

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