Hello,

On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:00:01 +1000, James McCaw wrote:

> On loading gthumb today it clearly had undergone a major (gnome 2.30 I guess)
> upgrade.

Not really GNOME-2.30-related but yes, a major upgrade.

> It has lost (in the GUI) *all* catalog and comment information...that's my
> carefully entered meta-data on perhaps 5,000+ photos dating back to 2004 or
> earlier.
> 
> I have found the data unharmed in ~/.gnome2/gthumb/collections and
> ~/<PATH_TO_PHOTO_IMPORT_DIR>/.comments. However, I see no way to ask gthumb to
> continue to use this information.

Can you please provide me with a sample of those data?

> [..]
> Any long time user of gthumb is going to be deeply frustrated by such a
> change, occuring without warning and without remedy apart from (presumbably) a
> downgrade.

You should complaint to upstream about that -- they broke many things with
2.11, that's why I kept the package in unstable for almost 2 months instead
of the usual 10-days :)

Kindly,
David

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