Shotwin

Shotwell is an awesome image organizer. However, there is no Windows port. Shotwin reads a Shotwell database and provides a user interface similar to Shotwell:

The target platform is Windows, but (at least currently) it is as cross-platform as Qt is. The idea behind it is simple

1. Copy Shotwell's database and all the files in it's database to a readable location on Windows.
2. Add as many path mappings as needed in the Settings dialog. E.g., /home/osse/Picture;E:/shotwell makes Shotwell attempt to find images under E:/shotwell when it encounters a path starting with /home/osse/Pictures in the database. This is in fact the only mapping I personally need, but you can add as many as you want. They are tried in order.
3. Enjoy! (Potentially after restarting)

Motivation:

I've Shotwell for several years. But the last couple of years Windows has been my most-used desktop OS at home. Firstly, it because tedious to either use a Virtual Machine or reboot to look at my pictures. Secondly, I wanted to familiarize myself with some aspects of Qt I wasn't all that familiar with, in particular Qt's Model/View Framework and QML. Thus, Shotwin was born.

It is not meant as a fork of or generally competitor to Shotwell. Neither is it meant to be a port of Shotwell. It is simply a program that uses a Shotwell database.

Features

Currently, Shotwin has the following basic features of Shotwell:

• Events organized in a tree, with event names or dates,
• file system tree of photo locations (does not current use the mapping describe above),
• tags list,
• basic view of events or photos within an event, when using the left-hand side trees,
• display rating and tags when viewing photos
• "fullscreen" photos with keyboard navigation.

It does not support:

• image transformations,
• searching,
• modification (importing photos etc.),
• modifiable sorting,
• nice rounded corners in the list of events,
• and just about everything else.

Some quirks:

• The GUI design looks very bland for a modern app. This has been far down on my list priorities, so don't hold your breath.
• Localized dates everywhere, but otherwise English language used in the GUI.
• No nice rounded corners in the list of events.

However, it does:

• Show thumbnails of videos!
• Play videos without using an external player!

Building

Shotwin is written in C++ with Qt and has no other compile time dependencies. The build system is CMake. If you are familiar with CMake building should be straight-forward. I have successfully built it with both Qt as provided by MSYS2 and the official installer.

To make thumbnailing of videos work, you need ffmpeg, and it must either be in %PATH% or you can set the path to it in the settings. To make video playback work, you need...