gtkam missing

Kim Lux lux at diesel-research.com
Wed Nov 10 17:20:03 UTC 2004


I share most of your sentiments.

gqview is missing as well.  It was my favorite photo organizing tool. 

I agree that synaptic should be shipping with FC distros. 


On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 08:58 -0500, Temlakos wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 07:35, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> > ons, 10,.11.2004 kl. 10.09 +0000, skrev mike:
> > > Is there a reason why gtkam is missing from FC3
> > > 
> > > Is there a replacement?
> > > 
> > Yes, gthumb replaces gtkam. It uses the same library to access the
> > cameras and in addition has a UI based on GTK+-2.x
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Kjartan
> 
> I see! Or, I think I see. Now why didn't the release notes specifically
> *say* that gthumb performs all the functions of the old gtkam? (Does
> gthumb have a plug-in for gimp?)
> 
> Which goes to the serious, and so far not-addressed, issue of
> documentation. *Where are the documents* showing quite clearly all the
> functions of the packages that distribute with Fedora? How are we
> supposed to know that a retained package subsumes the functions of
> another if nobody tells us? Think of how many people, not readers of any
> of these lists, went out and grabbed gtkam after installing FC3 or one
> of its RC's and *didn't have to*! (That might not seem important at
> first, but think of the conflicts you set up if you run two apps at once
> that each address the same device...!)
> 
> And when will *apt* distribute with Fedora? The best package manager
> ever invented, the best solution to the RPM dependency problem I've ever
> seen, works like a charm with Fedora, and it's not in the core distro?
> Something's wrong here.
> 
-- 
Kim Lux (Mr.)  Diesel Research Inc




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