>Why just limit this to JPEGs? People have a lot of images from a lot of different
sources. It's foolish just to restrict an image manager just to one class of images
or a very narrow use case.
I completely agree with this, even though it may not have seemed so from what I wrote. The intended meaning was that I think it is a good idea to focus on developing features, rather than just dropping in support for all kinds of obscure formats, before the project is useful enough in itself. At that point adding in support for absolutely everything should be easily doable using their respective libraries.
Looking at Shotwell's dependencies, I can't actually see any image libraries in the list, but it depends on libwebkit. That seems like a really weird thing to do, unless it's for the functionality to publish to Facebook and other online sites.
As I wrote, at the current state the project seems like it still has a ways to go, and putting Shutwell in a distro as the default image organizer seems like a stupid thing to do for the time being. On the bright side, this will probably fuel development.