When it comes to organizing and tweaking photos, digiKam and F-Spot rule the roost. But if you don't need all the bells and whistles of a full-blown photo management tool, then you might want to try Shotwell.

Just 3 days ago we were telling you that Shotwell (a photo manager for the GNOME desktop) 0.5 will be released soon and now Shotwell 0.5 is available for Ubuntu users in it's official PPA.

F-Spot is out, Shotwell is in and Chromium is to become a "first class citizen" in the October's release of Ubuntu, 10.10, Maverick Meerkat

The Yorba developers have released version 0.5.0 of their open source Shotwell photo manager for the GNOME desktop, adding support for Google's Picasa Web Albums service and printing

Maverick Meerkat will drop the Mono-based F-Spot image organiser in favour of Shotwell, reducing the number of Mono-based apps in a default Ubuntu install to just one. Change is afoot. Ubuntu developers have already said that Chromium will be the default browser in the Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) 10.10 release and now news is in that Shotwell will be the default image organiser in Maverick Meerkat.

Shotwell is (well almost) a relatively new open source photo organizer for the Gnome desktop which we were telling you about some time ago. Since then, Shotwell progressed a lot and the latest version 0.5 (not yet released) brings a lot of cool new features:

It’s taken a long time, but finally the future of Linux photo managers is looking up. It’s all thanks to amazing new photo management software called Shotwell, which is simple enough to be usable and featured enough to be useful (a hard balance to strike, and a rare one in the Linux world).

All of you would know by now that Ubuntu Devels are planning to remove GIMP as a default program. This has led to a lot of discussions among them about the default photo manager for Ubuntu Lucid that will compensate for it. In this article, we will look into the 3 top competitors F-Spot, Shotwell and Solang.

This photo management application simplifies photography bringing you an easily managed photo collection on your Gnome desktop. F-Spot photo manager allows you to import your favorite photos from your hard drive, camera or iPod.