Todo: add a section on compact flash and others card readers.

1. Introduction

This page shows you how you can import photos from your digital camera with gNewSense.

2. Prerequisite

F-Spot is the default gNewSense deltah photos manager, but is written in C#, it is thus a threat for free software communities, and Microsoft's community promise is also full of loopholes. For this reason, we recommend using gThumb instead. This part describes how to remove F-Spot and install gThumb instead.

2.1 F-Spot removal

To remove F-Spot, open a terminal and become root:

 sudo -s

Then, just remove it:

 apt-get remove f-spot

2.2 gThumb install

To install gThumb, synchronize local and remote software lists first:

 apt-get update

Install gThumb:

 apt-get install gthumb

3. Connecting digital camera

When you're on the desktop, connect your digital camera to your computer through its default connector (often USB connector). Switch on your digital camera. A new window should appear asking you whether you want to import your photos or not.

Note: be aware that recent digital cameras may not be supported.

Click on Ignore.

4. Importing photos

Open gThumb, either from the terminal:

 gthumb

or from the menu Applications -> Graphics -> gThumb Image Viewer. Once in gThumb, go to File -> Import Photos.

Import Photos' window is there, choose the destination directory, select photos you want to import and click on the Import button. By default, photos will be in a folder named yyyy-mm-dd--hh.mm.ss in the destination directory you chose, for example "2009-07-19--18.44.47".