Replace F-Spot with Solang

F-Spot has many users complain of slowness and forcing the import of photos into a single directory is unacceptable. Solang seems to be doing things right, much like PiTiVi and Telepathy, but hopefully without any lack of features. Check this out from their FAQ (http://live.gnome.org/Solang/FAQ):

Why write yet another photo manager? F-Spot, GThumb, J-Brout, Shotwell, etc. rock.

In our opinion none of them integrate well with the desktop. They need you to explicitly import photos from a directory and any meta-data that you add (mainly tags) get inserted into their private database. We do not do that anymore. We use Tracker (http://tracker-project.org/) for these purposes. It allows us to automatically detect all the photos on your computer and any meta-data that is added gets inserted into Tracker. So if you tag your photos in Solang, you can use those tags from any other application on the desktop (eg., Nautilus), and vice versa.