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> I really just want the Photos app from Mac on Linux. I was debating forking an existing project. If you want design help let me know. Bu yes, this. There is
by FollowingTheDao 2y ago
> I really just want the Photos app from Mac on Linux. I was debating forking an existing project.
If you want design help let me know.
Bu yes, this. There is no "in between" on linux. Photo apps either do everything confusingly, or it does nothing but show you the photo.
If Darktable had "simple" and "professional" settings it would be awesome. Sometimes you just want a quick edit and other times it needs to be more complex. But I have to wade through endless tiny crowded options in Darktable just to crop and change some basic levels.
Digikam gets a bit closer, but it still starts as complicated.
It would be great if the application gave you a simple interface at first, and then you can add on complexity if you need it. You want detailed curve manipulations? Great! Select "Add feature" and choose "Curves". This would help a lot with linux growth IMHO since it is the one thing I hear that frustrates just about everyone who does not want to use google photos.
The Photos App from Apple is only getting worse as well and Adobe is a horric mess of subscriptions and AI BS.
- giancarlostoro 2y agoI think my issue is a lot of them slow down to a crawl and Digikam fell under this problem for me. Importing thousands of images and videos isnt easy. I did like that Photoprism had a WebUI made it easy to access the photos across my network.
- buildbot 2y agoYep, the only photo library tool I’ve used that can handle 40K raws is Lightroom and Photomechanic. Everything else can’t handle ~2TB of photos.
- giancarlostoro 2y agoI am genuinely curious of what a good solution would be to this problem, because I love Photos on Mac but its not perfect either, one key thing Photos does insanely well is face grouping.
- fidelramos 2y agoI use Digikam on a 3 TiB collection and it works great.
- giancarlostoro 2y agoWhat database are you using and did you slowly build it up or what?
- fidelramos 2y agoThe Digikam DB is SQLite on a fast NVMe drive. The photos are on a 4 TB SSD. I have been using Digikam for maybe a decads, so the collection has been growing with me, but no issues so far.
- DidYaWipe 2y agoPhotos also stuffs everything into a proprietary database... a blunder made by far too many photo applications.
- ako 2y agoWhat would be the alternative to easily search through meta data of thousands of photos? Is there a non-proprietary database (engine or schema?), or other format that is scalable enough? I doubt that storing everything as a sidecar would be fast enough.
- DidYaWipe 2y agoValid question. How fast does it need to be, though?
- ako 2y agoI see a lot of performance complains from people with 75k+ image libraries, so performance should be considered when storing image (meta)data.
- ako 2y agoJust for info, just did a quick test: the digikam 'proprietary' database is a normal sqlite database that you can easily open and query in standard tools like duckdb. So pretty accessible, much better than some proprietary binary file, or using exif tools on 1000s of photos.