After getting fed up with KDE, we switched to Gnome. While some things took some getting used to (again, mostly around dealing with digital photos), overall the experience is a lot more pleasant.
The UI doesn't get nearly as much into the way as KDE does. Gnome has less bells and whistles, but things mostly just work, and on top of that, it's much, much faster than KDE4.
F-Spot is ok, but also suffers from the "hey, you didn't do anything, so I won't write that photo to disk when you tell me to save it after I rotated it for you automatically". One day I'll write (or find) a simple shell script that'll go through a folder and correctly rotate the photos on disk based on EXIF information.
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Use at your own risk, and sorry for the poor blogger formatting.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $jpeg = $ARGV[0];
open OUTPUT,"jhead \"$jpeg\" |";
my $tempfile = "/tmp/temp_$$.jpg";
while (<OUTPUT>) {
if ($_ =~ /^Orientation +: +(.*)$/) {
my $angle;
if ($1 eq "rotate 90") {
$angle = "90";
} elsif ($1 eq "rotate 180") {
$angle = "180";
} elsif ($1 eq "rotate 270") {
$angle = "270";
} else {
die "Unknown rotation: $1\n";
}
# print ("jpegtran -copy all -rotate $angle $jpeg > $tempfile");
print "Rotating $jpeg by $angle\n";
system ("jpegtran -copy all -rotate $angle \"$jpeg\" > $tempfile");
system ("mv $tempfile \"$jpeg\"");
}
}
hah!
Thank you :-)
BTW, my usage is usually like this:
$ find . -iname "*.jpg" | xargs -n1 -P4 ~/bin/jpegrot
Will run 4 versions of this in parallel, which is great on a quad-core machine. :)
bbeck@chef:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : CentaurHauls
cpu family : 6
model : 9
model name : VIA Nehemiah
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 999.874
...
Quite slow, but also very low power requirements for a desktop system.
I ended up using
exiftran -a -i
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