F-Spot is clunky, hard to use, and feature-poor. That's just one guy's opinion, of course.

If there is one thing I hate doing, it is bashing software projects. I mean, just because I hate a piece of Software doesn't mean it sucks for everyone, right? Or that the developers are assholes, right? Most of the developers I know are pretty okay sort of guys. It's System Administrators that you have to watch out for.

Anyway, that said, I just want to list reasons why I think F-Spot sucks monkey nuts.

• Poor performance. Lots of images? Well, expect to wait for lots of time while F-Spot figures out what the hell its doing. (Is this F-Spot or Mono's problem? I dunno)
• Shitty interface. While touted as being "easy to use" I find the opposite to be true.
• Wants to, while importing photos from somewhere, wants to copy them to the Photos directory. I just plain don't want bajillions of copies of photos around. Why can't it at least remember that I have un-checked this option every time? I just want to import them into F-Spot's management database, not into where F-spot thinks I should save everything.
• Zero flexibility. If F-Spot does what you want it to do for you, and you like the way F-Spot does it, then fine! But if you want anything different, F-Spot ain't the way to go.

Actually, this last one shows up in Gnome apps all the time. Easy-to-use is not synonomous with inflexible or with no features. But the Gnome project seems to think so. At least, that is the view that is projected in the pantheon of Gnome apps; maybe the philosophy is different, but I can't tell. KDE is much better in this regard -- most KDE apps are bubbling with advanced features that you don't have to use. But it is true that many advance configuration options for Gnome apps can be found in their gconf configuration, and using the gconf-editor. And once I found that out, I found Gnome in general to be a lot more appealing.

Okay, short post, but there you have it.