Pure and fast photo tagging application to replace digikam?

Hello,
after all the aKonadi related mess I've finally left KDE - now I'm a very happy Awesome user, wondering why I had not discovered it earlier.
So far I've replaced most of my 'unreplaceable' stuff, like kmail, kile and k3b. The last and only thing that forces me to use kdelibs with all the dependencies is Digikam.
I use it, hovewer, in a very narrow way - only to tag images and (later) search them. As I work only with RAWs, my workhorse is RawTherapee, which - unortunately - has no database features.
So I'm looking for an application which could replace Digikam in its tagging-and-searching role. It doesn't need to have any photo importing/editing/exporting features, but it should be able to manage the tags database well, as my way of organizing photos is tag-centered.
Does such application exist? I've done some searching, but so far the only one that seems to fit my needs is... Digikam
I'm stuck with this problem, so all hints will be very appreciated
greetings,
Paweł

Well, I won't say you're totally wrong, because I can agree with your argumentation in some points.
From my point of view, however, you made wrong assumptions.
When F-Spot, digiKam, KPhotoAlbum and so on exist, why should someone waste developing time to write a new one instead to increase the usability of the existing one?
1) F-Spot and Digikam are big applications, with image importing, editing and exporting features. I don't need this functionality. Tagging and searching is everything I am looking for.
A GTK+ version of KPhotoAlbum - that's my target, I think. And I'm very surprised that it doesn't yet exist.
If I used all features of Digikam, I'd probably won cry about it's dependencies.
2) People do really write new applications similar to those which exist. Look how many window managers, image viewers, web browsers - and even programming languages! - we have now. If you had been right, we would still be using Mosaic 19 or Netscape Navigator 11 to browse the web.
And the web browsers are good example I think. We already had Firefox and Opera, but then Chromium arised, and many people found it to be better. And I personally use jumanji.
It's all about having the choice.
When you decide to use a lightweight environment you also have to accept that you dont have much features.
3) In fact I use this light environment (Awesome) because it better fits to my needs. It is extremely fast, it has proper multihead implementation, it supports tiling perfectly, it is easy scriptable with lua... Neither KDE nor Gnome can compete in these categories.
I'm not a kind of person who likes to complicate his life, but after transition from KDE i clearly see that I have more important features here, and my environment is closer to perfect now.
And in my search of purity, simplicity, but also usability I currently have only one, last obstacle - the photo tagging application
Last edited by gorky (2010-09-05 11:52:45)

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