Looking for a software recomendation for FC3

[Tim Holmes]

> Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> >>>
> >>>Hi Folks:
> >>>
> >>>I am looking for some software for my FC3 laptop.  I need a
> >>>program that will download digital pictures from my
> >>>Flashcard, and while it is doing so, change their names to
> >>>whatever I specify.  The ideal would be some sort of image
> >>>handling program, but I can live with something else if it
> >>>will do the job.  I have installed wine, and gotten it
> >>>running, but the Nikon Transfer program that I normally use
> >>>will not run under wine (yet), and I need something else
> >>>
> >>>Any help you can provide would be great
> >>
> >>Did you look at gphoto : http://www.gphoto.org/ which is available
with
> >>Fedora Core 3 ?
> >>
> >>
> >>>TIM
> >>>
> >>
> >>Sincerely yours, Mathieu.
> >>
> >
> >
> > GPhoto seems very nice if you are downloading the pictures from a
> > camera. Can it work with SD card readers as well? up to now I
couldn't
> > make it work there. I have to manually transfer the files, and then
> > rename then 1 by 1 if I want to.
> 
> Probably not.  gphoto looks for cameras and their IDs on the USB and
> serial ports.  You could override that with the "--usbid" option and
> give it your SD card reader's USB ID and a translation for an
> appropriate camera.
> 
> Remember, gphoto primarily downloads the data.  Other tools are used
to
> manipulate the image (e.g. gtkam, the Gimp, EOG, whatever).
 [Tim Holmes wrote] 


Some have suggested digiKam, but I am not sure if I recommend it as a
solution, as it is faulting in the configuration stage of the install,
and not supplying enough information to help figure out what is wrong 

If anyone has any suggestions, I would be open

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