Shotwell

Shotwell is a digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos from disk or camera, organize them in various ways, view them in full-window or fullscreen mode, and export them to share with others.

 Official home page

Documentation

Mailing list

Send a message with a subject: of subscribe to  shotwell-request@lists.yorba.org or go to  http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell.

An archive of past mailing list messages is available at  http://lists.yorba.org/pipermail/shotwell/ . The mailing list is also mirrored on  Nabble.

Community

There is a  Flickr group for Shotwell users.

Development

The list of Shotwell tickets shows all features and bug fixes planned for Shotwell.

Contributions to Shotwell are always welcome. We're happy to receive patches containing new features or bug fixes, as well as bug reports, translations, artwork or documentation. If you're interested in hacking on the Shotwell code, please read the extensive architecture overview describing Shotwell's various subsystems and data structures. Please also read the Shotwell coding guidelines and the internationalization guide.

Translations

The  Shotwell page at Transifex.net shows our current translation status. We have a list of active translators by language.

If you're interested in contributing to the translation effort, see the internationalization guide for information on how to get started.

Shotwell 0.7

The next major release of Shotwell will be version 0.7, scheduled for release in August 2010. We will include the following new features in 0.7:

  • Rating photos. The user will be able to assign any of the following ratings to each photo: unrated (the default), 1-5 stars, or rejected (the lowest rating). You will be able to sort and/or filter by rating. By default, Shotwell will display all photos except rejected photos. In the browser view, we'll have a dropdown menu on the toolbar that will allow you to select a different filter, e.g. only 3 stars and higher. This will replace Shotwell's existing hidden/favorites mechanism. When you upgrade from 0.6 to 0.7, all previously hidden photos will become rejected and all previously favorite photos will be assigned a rating of 5 stars.
  • Migration for F-Spot users. Shotwell 0.7 will be able to migrate an F-Spot library to Shotwell by reading the F-Spot database directly. Tags and ratings from F-Spot will be preserved. If a user has edited a photo in F-Spot, the latest version of the photo (and, perhaps, the original version too) will be available in Shotwell.
  • A last import page that displays all photos from the last import. This will make it much easier to find all the photos you've just imported.

Shotwell 0.7 will include numerous smaller improvements as well. All Shotwell tickets at priority 'release' are currently targeted for 0.7.

More information

Release History

A Shotwell release history is available here.

Check out the  Shotwell download directory for a full listing of releases.