If you recently upgraded to Hardy Heron, you might have been a little surprised when you went to upload some photos from your digital camera. For Ubuntu 8.04, F-Spot has become the default image application. While this program is supposed to be more comprehensive than gthumb, I simply don't like it as much.
gThumb is lightweight, created folders based on the date and time of importing, and has the basic tagging features I like.
Making this the default application again is easy.
Step 1: Download gThumb
In a root terminal type:
"apt-get install gthumb"
Step 2: Change Preferred Application
Go to System > Preferences > Removable Drives and Media
It should open to the first tab, "Cameras".
Make sure that the checkbox is selected.
Erase anything that's in the "Command" box, and type in:
"gthumb --import-photos"
without the quotations.
Now you're all set, no more bulky F-Spot! You can now go into synaptic or a terminal to remove F-Spot if you don't want it on your system anymore.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Don't like F-Spot? Go back to Gutsy's Default Photo Importer
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5 comments:
Thanks for the tip, man. I tried to import photos today for the first time since upgrading and f-spot was driving me insane. Looked it up on google and got your blog. Again, thanks for the tip.
I'm glad it helped.
I have a love-hate thing going on with F-spot it always seems to be crashing and odd junctions though I can see what they are aiming for. I might give gthumb a look.
Thanks a lot! I just didn't like FSpot . It didn't allow me to delet the pictures on the camera after importing them and it didn't save the pictures in a dated file. Thanks again from Point Fortin , Trinidad and Tobago!
thanks for the instruction on how to change the default to g-thumb - i find f-spot too slow.
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