Help me find a good photo management app

[bash]

After I asked about a good picture viewer (Link (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=752658)) I still haven't found what I am looking for. And I noticed its not just a good image viewer I am lacking but also a good photo management app. So actually what my hope would be is to find something that can do both: Be a fast image viewer and a nice photo management app.

I tried F-Spot. But not my thing. I always feel like every second feature is like "Coming soon" or "Will be implemented here in a while". gThumb looks even more archaic in my eyes. Anyways I am looking for the one program to do it all mightly great (Yes I know thats not the original Linux spirit). So if anyone knows something they personally think is great then feel free to post me the name of that program.

[Istonian]

Try digikam.

[keykero]

I am not sure how you feel about Google's Picasa but it apparently does run under Linux and has .debs:

http://picasa.google.com/linux/

[cb951303]

f-spot and gthumb are both complete applications, what didn't you like about them?

[bash]

f-spot and gthumb are both complete applications, what didn't you like about them?

What bugs me about F-Spot and actually all the other programs is the wasted space. I would love if that the image viewer program could just "wrap" around the picture. No 50px bars on each side of the picture. And afaik I remember that the default image viewer used to do it in Ubuntu a couple of versions back (Like pointed out here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4699903&postcount=1).

And just for F-Spot. I really like the idea with the tags on the left side. What bugs me is that you can't remove the info box in the lower left corner and sometimes it just feels incomplete. Hard to describe. If the contextual sidebar (http://f-spot.org/New_Features_-_Sidebar), the nice fullscreen mode (http://f-spot.org/New_Features_-_Fullscreen) would be implemented and the image viewer part changed to how I said above I would be right back to F-Spot in a second.

/edit:

At least concerning the sidebar, apperently someone is working on it as a SoC project (http://code.google.com/soc/2008/gnome/appinfo.html?csaid=1EF7F7EDFE7E57BE).

[rune0077]

I'm voting Picasa as well - it runs great on Linux, and it's a really good image viewer/organizer (the fact that it automatically scans your entire harddrive for media-files alone makes it more useful to me than anything else I've tried).

[Steveway]

If you want to try something special then you should take a look at imgseek.
Imgseek can analyze your pictures and you can search for pictures in your collection by example.
That means you either give a picture as a reference and it gives you similar looking ones or you can start drawing in a little box.
It works very well but gets slow at about 20000 pictures with only 512MB of RAM.
But it is definatly something to check out.

[mips]

digiKam

[Sinkingships7]

I am not sure how you feel about Google's Picasa but it apparently does run under Linux and has .debs:

http://picasa.google.com/linux/

+1

[gn2]

digiKam

Superb app.