Bridge for Linux?

[fela]

Who thinks that someone should make a program similar to Adobe Bridge, but for Linux? I think it's an awesome program for organizing all your photos (and I have tonnes of them!).

Or does anyone already know of a substitute for it? Please let me know if so.

-Fela

EDIT: the poll ends in 1 year, so get voting!

[philcamlin]

The closest thing to the Bridge is Bibble Pro. It's also the best RAW editor that you will find around for Linux. :popcorn:

sorry its not free

[fela]

The closest thing to the Bridge is Bibble Pro. It's also the best RAW editor that you will find around for Linux. :popcorn:

sorry its not free


I don't have any money at all, especially not for software!!! +1 on the suggestion though, even though it's not free. ;)

[kayosiii]

Digikam is probably the best free option I have come across so far.

[ad_267]

Yeah Digikam works pretty well for me, I've never used Adobe Bridge though so I'm not sure how it compares to that.

[fela]

OK I just tried digikam. It seems alright, but not as good as Bridge. I think a few little tweaks here and there would make it absolutely superb (stuff like being able to quickly edit images with gimp, for example). Good program overall though (shame I use gnome though, KDE4 sucks) :D

[kayosiii]

To edit images with the gimp right click on the image and go to the edit with menu... Gimp and anything else interesting should be in that menu.

kde4 works fine for me... I do appreciate some of the niceties of GNOME and the polish that the Ubuntu has put into it - but kde works better for me.

[fela]

To edit images with the gimp right click on the image and go to the edit with menu... Gimp and anything else interesting should be in that menu.

kde4 works fine for me... I do appreciate some of the niceties of GNOME and the polish that the Ubuntu has put into it - but kde works better for me.

I did find out about the right click menu thingy about 1.35 milliseconds after starting up the program - I was thinking more along the lines of double click == open with GIMP (or whatever substitute you prefer). Or better, ctrl + O.

About KDE4: on my respectable machine (see specs in signature) KDE4 runs like a tortoise on drugs! that's how bad it is. Although I haven't tried it with 6GB of RAM yet (I previously had only 2GB).

[ad_267]

On my machine KDE 4 runs alright. I've got a P4 2.4 GHz processor, 1.5 GB ram and an Nvidia 6600GT video card. So there's something funny going on with your setup. I've got both Kubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 9.04 installed and switch between the two.

[fela]

On my machine KDE 4 runs alright. I've got a P4 2.4 GHz processor, 1.5 GB ram and an Nvidia 6600GT video card. So there's something funny going on with your setup. I've got both Kubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 9.04 installed and switch between the two.

OK there definitely is something funny going on there! I was surprised when it ran KDE so badly, cause it runs Vista fine (and that's supposed to be a massive resource hog). Well it is a massive resource hog and it runs fine! So I wonder what's up with KDE.

EDIT: I do have a CPU problem due to my teeny L2 cache (just 512KB per core, dual core). I should have got the 3GHz Windsor CPU with its 1MB per core L2 cache, I didn't because it was 90nm instead of Brisbane's 65nm. But you can't 'overclock' the L2 cache unfortunately...it's built in. I'm gonna get a phenom II at the end of the year though, if I have the cash for it.

[kayosiii]

That does sound kind off odd... I have seen it running fine on lower spec'ed machines.... I don't think it would be your cache causing issues.

Video card drivers can cause massive problems however as KDE4 uses some parts of the hardware that other desktop environments do not. This has exposed a lot of bugs in Both X and practically all video card drivers. The situation is improving. There have been a lot of fixes go into x and QT. Nvidia have had their stuff sorted out for a while now. Not sure on the status of intel or AMD drivers. Gnome users will of course benifit from all this when gnome decides to modernise. You can of course turn of Desktop compositing or use Compiz with kde instead of kwin.

As for digikam - Yeah it sort of designed as a simple photo editor as well as a photo manager It supports 16bit colour which the gimp does not so I actually end up using quite a bit... You can drag and drop images from digikam into the gimp. (images can also be dragged to the layer dialog to be opened as layers and svg images can be dragged onto the paths dialog.