That doesn't make sense - "so long as you use kde" + "I don't".

As for GNOME incompatabilities - can you expand on the "incompatabilities" and conflicts you have? Have you filed bug reports?
Or do you mean digiKam doesn't use the same libraries that GNOME does to perform vaguely similar tasks (QT/GTK, gfs/kio, etc, etc) - which would hardly be surprising.... Disclaimer: I used to have to use GNOME for work - and always found it's lack of configuration as ugly as the GNOME looks and way of doing things. But that's just a personal taste and programmers perspective.

I can confirm, as the result of several years daily use, that both KDE and digiKam work very well, and that digiKam works very well on boxen that don't have the KDE metapackage installed. e.g. on netbooks running xfce

Agreed on the digiKam to competition comparison - I've used Adobe products for years (result of client environments) - digiKam is better for my purposes (maintaining very large databases of client images for publication/web sites/promotion purposes).

$ apt-cache depends digikam
Depends: kde-runtime, libc6, libgcc1, libgomp1, libgphoto2-2, libgphoto2-port0, libjasper1, libjpeg8, libkdcraw20, libkdecore5, libkdeui5, libkdewebkit5, libkexiv2-10, libkfile4, libkhtml5, libkio5, libkipi8, libknotifyconfig4, libkparts4, liblcms1, liblensfun0, liblqr-1-0, libmarblewidget13, libnepomuk4, libopencv-core2.3, libopencv-highgui2.3, libopencv-imgproc2.3, libopencv-legacy2.3, libopencv-objdetect2.3, libphonon4, libpng12-0, libqjson0, libqt4-dbus, libqt4-network, libqt4-qt3support, libqt4-sql, libqt4-xml, libqtcore4, libqtgui4, libqtwebkit4, libsolid4, libsoprano4, libstdc++6, libtiff4, libx11-6, phonon, libqt4-sql-sqlite, digikam-data, digikam-doc
Recommends: <www-browser>, conkeror, dillo, elinks-lite, elvis-console, lynx-cur, netsurf, netsurf-fb, netsurf-gtk, uzbl, chimera2, chromium, elinks, elvis, epiphany-browser, google-chrome-beta, google-chrome-stable, google-chrome-unstable, iceweasel, konqueror, links, links2, midori, netrik, rekonq, surf, w3m
Recommends: kipi-plugins
Recommends: mplayerthumbs

That's about 40MB if installed with --no-install-recommends (assume the OP already has a browser) and unless you are using digiKam or one of it's dependencies (e.g. phonon) GNOME is not using more resources. Note that phonon itself is unnecessary for digiKam usage (it uses it for video sound) - just use equiv to replace it if it offends your inner GNOME.

digiKam, free, runs on the major platforms, has the feature you've asked for and all the features you haven't asked for but, based on my experience, you will need.

Quoting from:-

A digiKam Overview

digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for KDE, which makes importing and organizing digital photos a "snap". The photos are organized in albums which can be sorted chronologically, by folder layout or by custom collections.

Tired of the folder constraints? Don’t worry, digiKam also provides tagging. You tag your images which can be spread out across multiple folders, and digiKam provides fast and intuitive ways to browse these tagged images. You can also add comments to your images. digiKam makes use of a fast and robust database to store these meta-informations which makes adding and editing of comments and tags very reliable.

digiKam makes use of KIPI plugins for lots of added functionalities. KIPI (KDE Image Plugin Interface) is an initiative to create a common plugin infrastructure for digiKam, KPhotoAlbum, and GwenView. Its aim is to allow development of image plugins which can be shared among KDE graphical applications.

An easy-to-use interface is provided that enables you to connect to your camera and preview, download and/or delete your images. Basic auto-transformations can be deployed on the fly during image downloading.

Another tool, which most artists and photographers will be familiar with, is a Light Table. This tool assists artists and photographers with reviewing their work ensuring the highest quality only. A classical light table will show the artist the place on the images to touch up. Well in digiKam, the light table function provides the user a similar experience. You can import a photo, drag it onto the light table, and touch up only the areas that need it.

Note: it's not very stable if you insist on running it on Windoof. Very reliable on Linux, I haven't tried with OSX.

Features

And it's falsely based on the idea that Debian doesn't support building any damn thing you like - including not using systemd (if you're the anti-woody word type). Unless your (not you) audience are sheeple who don't check a damn thing (a typical slashdot reader).

MikeeUSA/Jaromil - is that you (again)?

You claim you wrote MuSe?

BULLSHIT! citation

And you made the sun rise this morning too...

Thanks, but I'd be surprise if that happened.

1. You may have noticed that the "story" submitter is Jaromil, so I suspect (extrapolating from experience) he's accompanied by his sock puppet army (do they imitate the NSA with forum flooding and FUD techniques, or does the NSA imitate them?)
2. I've always suspected that the NSA is actively involved in ceasing this opportunity to divide Debian, if not celebrating the number of senior Debian developers who have left due to the number of personal attacks and threats they've recieved from the "anti-systemd" "campaign"

Jaromil does some excellent graphic work - but his musical ability is more autistic than artistic, allowing for a broad spectrum of tastes... and his "software accomplishments" is less than truthful (his hasciicam program lacks truthful attributions to it's true basis, and his Dyneobolic distro is just one of very many "respins". Not a patch on Knoppix - which is the work of one person , or a shadow of Mint and other Debian derivatives. There have been many Debian fork attempts...

Some vaguely related trivia regarding your pseudonym. Unix was a joke name chosen by the developers of Multix - the operating system that was intended to "do everything", when their funding was cut. Eunuchs/Unix was the result. Linux was the name given to Linux Torvalds to create a non-Unix compatible kernel.

apt-get install sysvinit-core

They are two people (or one person and a bunch of sock puppets). Only one will has any history of coding - and not sufficient to port Debian.

What "they" want is money - for what? With the same accounting standards and transparency of dyne "smoke" obolic (whose code contributors all quit) - will it have the same non-existant "non-profit" status?

A more accurate name for the "forked Debian" would be "RaptureOS" - and it could use the Inca calendar for it's release schedule. Release a new version everytime the world ends.

yeah, yeah - I'll be wrong, "you wait and see"... OK, thanks I will.

1. How many other "forks" and "distros" start by asking for funds?
2. How many are founded on FUD? systemd will "takeover" (rape your girlfriend) is a Freedesktop.org/RedHat/NSA conspiracy, PID 0 is just wrong man, sysv (is well maintained) has no failing or short-coming, systemd is a monolith (and a ball of string), systemd is not UNIX (Linux is UNIX), systemd is wrong for servers (just ask our crusty sockpuppet/secret VUAs), systemd is only for desktop (sytemd ruined GNOME), Debian doesn't (already allow you to install a choice of several init systems) allow you to install sysv, Lennart is (part of a project) rude (to trolls)
3. How many FOSS distributions preaching open-ness are run by secret identities?
4. - on github!
5. Put a thousand car modders in the same garage and you won't make a Ford.
6. Why not create a Debian PureBlend?
7. - or a Debian distro?
8. Forking, for anyone who understands what that means - is a huge job for a large, qualified, community
9. Why not put some love into helping the dwindling sysv project?
10. Lastly - if MikeeUSA endorses it - how good can it be. (better than TempleOS?)

As for me - I'll wait and see. I run servers not the bleeding edge - systemd has some great features - when they've been deployed in Stable for a year I'll have a look. Certainly sysv has become a fucking liability. I'm sick of trying to trawl through dozens of logs across thousands of servers. Fuck plain text - another piece of FUD from forkdebian - systemd happily provides text logs to the usual places for those that only deal with one box (except the logs cover the entire boot to shutdown).

That's all I've got.

It's not just the link that's gone. Not the event/story/pictures/history. And when there's no record of it having happened it still happened - right?
So all good. I always hated investigative journalism - and this should put a crimp on that!
[/sarcasm/satire]

No more futile that Stalin's censorship regime.
[cue orchestra to play Orwellian overtones]
If he ordered the record wiped of someone or something that offended him - that history effectively vanished for most people.

How is this not the same thing?
Hint: different dog, same leg action?

What do we call the European version of Google Web Search now? It will hardly qualify as a "search engine of the entire internet" except, perhaps to the hypercritical/normalisers

If the EU succeeds in getting other countries to follow the same lines, combined with "initiatives" by various countries to "restrict access"[*1] to sites that offend their sensibilities[*2] the intertubes will (at least for the vast, unwashed, majority) become as enlightening and informative as a Creationist University.

And another thing! Where's the requirement for Bing, Yahoo, and all the other search engines to do the same thing. Something smells fishy in Belgium, and it's ain't the smell of fresh.

[*1] it a site is illegal - why not prosecute and take it down? Instead of draping it in black plastic and posting signs saying "don't look - illegal content"? Huh?

[*2] case in point, Australia's censored site list is the result of lobbying by Family First, funded by Mr "Benevolent Puritan" Packer. Odd how so many gambling sites should feature on that list (that it's illegal to disclose). No conflict of interest there... weeel maybe, but you won't be able to search for a citation with Google if the EU have their way.

Big if, or perhaps I misunderstand "precedence".

Agreed

Hmmm - should we pretend the Nazi's never existed? True it's not the same thing. But - assuming the person "accused" of child abuse is deemed innocent in a court - which is not what you are saying (perhaps you believe courts are never wrong?) - does that mean the wrongful accusations should be "vanished" - or just weighted lower in the search results than the possibility the person was falsely accused?

Consider for a moment how many people are wrongly convicted - should the claims they were innocent be wiped from search results?

What of those who are guilty and we later asked how the authorities failed to investigate years of previous claims? Let's ask Rolf Harris shall we?

Hyperbole aside - I propose that it's not a case of do or don't - it's a matter of weighting the results. Or we'd all be buying eyewear from the company that sucks the most because they don't want to wipe their nasty history from search results.
I suspect that legislating to make the world safe for people who won't do their research (ban bad weather, complex explanations, and furniture without sharp corners) is a fascist wet dream.

Free speech is a tricky thing - especially if only "acceptable" speech is allowed. Good luck getting Google (do the EU know there are other search engines?) to take down what Glenn Beck said about how he heard you rape baby seals - he'd like to extend the opportunity for you to prove you didn't though...

I'm focusing on what I quoted in my response. You're just being a goal-shifting egotistical dick - which is not "helpful" in any context.

That is a fact. So is the sad reality that there are many people like Matheus, ShanghaiBill, pr0fessor etc, that will blame the victim, regard doing so as trivial, or even humorous. What's worse is they live in denial of themselves (stupid) and truly believe they aren't misogynists. (scared and bluffing).

Werewolves do walk among us.

... not what you believe it was. I quoted the specific point I was replying to.
...not what the thread is about
...not what the main article is about.

Again - try reading before shooting your idiot mouth. It's not like you are incapable of focus or intelligent output. Perhaps you're having a bad day or it's just confirmation bias from some sort of emotional over-investment.

It could have been part of a suite of tools that include ones for other OS. But it is not, hence it's not relevant, and like the OP in this thread - the opposite of "informative".
Nowhere have I made any statement about any OS being more or less secure than another.

O'reilly? Even the women?

Correct, provisionally - targeted attacks are OS agnostic - if designed to be OS agnostic.

In the case of Regin (did you even read the lead before shooting your idiot mouth?) it is not OS agnostic. It affects Windows only. So does Stuxnet

Disclaimer - I have no problem with Steve Balmer throwing chairs - as long as they're heavy, and hit idiots like you. Thanks for lowering the standard.

Good point! Let's not do anything. Inaction is always the best course of action.

How can we work out if baby isn't still dirty? It could be - right? Therefore it's likely (sigh), and if it's likely - we'd better throw out the baby with the bathwater.
/. agressive armchair apathy - the new "insightful"

In other news there are rumours of a CA being broken into - or maybe it was several - or maybe someone with a few thousand just bought a fraudulent certificate. And those who can't/won't stump up a hundred dollars lower the standard
Lucky I'm just making this shit up
How could you possible check? (if only there was some sort of looky-uppy facts com-put-ah....)

How do we know you don't work for the NSA?
Looks like a duck, smells like a duck, got it's arse in the air like a duck....
Must be a weasel!