GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 600130
Enable the Editors in --view mode
Last modified: 2009-11-18 16:26:49 UTC
I've had this really frustrating experience several times. I want to do simple editing of a photo (usually cropping), but I want want to resort to GIMP. So I right-click on the photo and select "Open With F-SPot". But I cannot do any editing of the photo. Even more confusingly, I can select an area of the photo by dragging (as if I am about to crop), but I cannot seem to DO anything with this selected area. The only way to use the crop tool seems to be to start F-Spot manually, import the folder containing the photo (I can't select the photo individually, it's grayed out), and then edit it. This is a fairly major usability bug. I was trying to introduce someone to linux (specifically Ubuntu) recently, and the lack of easy, intuitive cropping was a killer feature for them. It was just as difficult for me, and I am not the average computer user. It should be simple to crop a photo by opening it with F-Spot. Let me know if there's some reason for this that I'm just not understanding! You've put a lot of work into F-Spot, and I really appreciate it! I just don't understand this decision.
could you please run f-spot from the commandline, with the --debug option, and report ? s
Created attachment 146840 [details] Log of f-spot --debug
Oops, it looks like the comment I wrote didn't get posted: I don't have this issue when I start F-Spot manually. It only happens when I start it by right clicking on an image, and selecting "Open with F-Spot". Is there any way I can do this from the commandline? I attached a log of "f-spot --debug" just in case it helps you, but the problem does not occur in the log (since F-Spot is started manually). Ignore the two Gtk-Warnings at the beginning, they have nothing to do with F-Spot.
sorry Matthew, my comment was meant to be written in another bug. this issue is not a bug. when you open an image using the right-click in nautilus, it opens the f-spot viewer, which is different from the f-spot photo manager. the f-spot viewer currently doesn't allow you to edit pictures (it's a _viewer_ after all). I admit it would be a nice to have feature, but it's yet to be implemented. I'm almost certain that there is already another bug open for this...
(In reply to comment #0) > I've had this really frustrating experience several times. I want to do simple > editing of a photo (usually cropping), but I want want to resort to GIMP. So I > right-click on the photo and select "Open With F-SPot". But I cannot do any > editing of the photo. Even more confusingly, I can select an area of the photo > by dragging (as if I am about to crop), but I cannot seem to DO anything with > this selected area. The only way to use the crop tool seems to be to start > F-Spot manually, import the folder containing the photo (I can't select the > photo individually, it's grayed out), and then edit it. > > This is a fairly major usability bug. I was trying to introduce someone to > linux (specifically Ubuntu) recently, and the lack of easy, intuitive cropping > was a killer feature for them. It was just as difficult for me, and I am not > the average computer user. It should be simple to crop a photo by opening it > with F-Spot. > > Let me know if there's some reason for this that I'm just not understanding! > You've put a lot of work into F-Spot, and I really appreciate it! I just don't > understand this decision.
uh, something weird happened in comment #5
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 513561 ***