imports photos _before_ I hit the import button

Evening,

Thanks for the report. This is reported upstream but has little response there. Check the linked bugs for more information.

Iain

F-Spot is ridiculously useless.

I can't even start f-spot in karmic. I get the following error!
[Info 13:30:20.090] Initializing DBus
[Info 13:30:20.186] Initializing Mono.Addins
[Info 13:30:20.324] Starting new FSpot server (f-spot 0.6.1.5)

** (f-spot:3097): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed

** (f-spot:3097): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed

** (f-spot:3097): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed

** (f-spot:3097): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed

** (f-spot:3097): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed
[Info 13:30:20.950] Starting BeagleService
[Info 13:30:20.964] Hack for gnome-settings-daemon engaged

(f-spot:3097): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: GdkPixbufLoader finalized without calling gdk_pixbuf_loader_close() - this is not allowed. You must explicitly end the data stream to the loader before dropping the last reference.
The program 'f-spot' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 2944 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

When I tried to load f-spot binary in gdb, I got the following error:
"/usr/bin/f-spot": not in executable format: File format not recognized

the bug has been fixed upstream now

This bug was fixed in the package f-spot - 0.7.0-1

---------------
f-spot (0.7.0-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release 0.7.0
   + First release of the unstable 0.7 development series. Massive changes.
   + Reparenting and detaching support (Anton Keks) (Closes: #559745)
   + A new Mallard-based documentation (Harold Schreckengost)
   + No longer embeds flickrnet, uses distribution copy (Iain Lane)
   + Adoption of a large amount of Hyena functionality (Paul Lange, Peter
     Goetz)
   + No longer embeds gnome-keyring-sharp
   + Completely rewritten import, much faster and less memory hungry (Ruben
     Vermeersch) (Closes: #559080, #492658, #341790, #357811, #426017) (LP:
     #412091)
   + No longer use gphoto2-sharp, now uses gvfs which is less crash-pron
     (Ruben Vermeersch)
   + Fix Facebook support (Ruben Vermeersch)
   + Modernized unit tests
   + Revamped build (Mike Gemünde)
   + Much improved duplicate detection (much faster too) (Ruben Vermeersch)
   + Mouse selection in Iconview (Vincent Pomey)
   + Image panning support using middle mouse button (Wojciech Dzierżanowski)
   + Timeline slider now restricted to the size of the window (Iain Churcher)
   + Over 100 bugs closed (http://bit.ly/cyVjnD)
     - No more warnings about schema defaults (Closes: #584215) (LP: #586132)
  * debian/control: Clean up build deps to match configure checks
  * debian/rules: Don't run dh_makeshilbs as we don't ship any shared
    libraries. There are some private ones though, which get picked up and
    result in a useless postinst/postrm call to ldconfig. Thanks, lintian.
  * debian/patches/debian_fix-distclean.patch,
    debian/patches/debian_fix_f-spot.exe.config.patch,
    debian/patches/debian_link-system-flickrnet.patch,
    debian/patches/debian_link-system-gnome-keyring.patch,
    debian/patches/debian_disable-unit-tests,
    debian/patches/git_transition_duration.patch,
    debian/patches/ubuntu_fix_folder_export_hang.patch:
    Clean up obsolete patches which are no longer necessary
  * debian/patches/*: Temporarily disable patches which originated from Ubuntu
    and no longer apply cleanly. We will get these back in a future upstream
    development release.
  * debian/patches/*: Refresh to apply cleanly
  * debian/rules: Add new include dir to autoreconf call to pick up f-spot
    macros
 -- Jo Shields <email address hidden> Mon, 24 May 2010 10:35:57 +0100