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Jun 9, '09 4:30 PM
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As was mentioned before, there are a few reasons why we decided to write Solang. One of them is that the current crop of Gtk+/GNOME image management programs seem to be quite resource heavy. To illustrate this, we did some real life comparison between the the pre-existing choices and Solang using the same set of photos. To simplify things, the applications were restarted after importing the photos and then the observations were noted.

Eye of GNOME

Not an image management program this one, but an image viewer, but we like its simplicity and thought it would be nice to know how we match up against it. What we found out was a pleasant suprise.

F-Spot

GThumb

JBrout

Solang

It must be said that Solang is still in a nascent stage and have a long way to go, but we already have a bunch of things in place to feel slightly positive about it.

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bogado wrote on Jun 10, '09

I was very exited about this, but it seems that is does not compile on fedora 11's bundled libraries. :-( Is there any work being done on this, I already cloned the repository and am trying to update the database classes to the 4.0 API?

debarshiray wrote on Jun 11, '09

Nice to hear that.

The reason it does not compile on the latest ditributions like Fedora 11 and Ubuntu Jauntu Jackalope is that Exiv2 and Libgda broke their APIs and we are yet to install them on our workstations.

However, the situation is set to change very soon. I already have the Fedora 11 LiveCD with me now, and am torrenting the Fedora 11 DVD.

Not only that, glibmm and libgdl has some issues which are mentioned in the README: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/solang.git/tree/README Those are mainly to do with bug-fixes which either need backported patches or an update to a newer release. Being a Fedora packager myself, I try to keep the Fedora end of things as up to date as possible, but the same can not be guaranteed for other distributions. My co-developer, Santanu, is a Debian user, but Debian seems to be a bit slow in incorporating downstream fixes. I have no idea how to address this.

Right now the plan is to port Solang from Exiv2 0.17.x to Exiv2 0.18.x. Then we plan to tackle Libgda.

It would be nice to have you on http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/solang-devel so that we can co-ordinate our efforts better.

Happy hacking!

bogado wrote on Jun 14, '09

I just entered the list, I am very busy lately, and cannot warranty many hours of hacking, but this seems to be a good oportunity to scratch an itch I had for a long time. Too bad that I cannot test the program to see how it is doing.

debarshiray wrote on Jun 14, '09

Right now the combination of Exiv2 0.18.x and Libgdamm 3.x is available on Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope and Debian Sid. Strangly Ubuntu has libgda4 but not its equivalent mm bindings in Jaunty.

Lets see what we can do about this mess.