I've noticed this about iPhoto too. I was a mac user, but recently switched to linux on my laptop when I realized iPhoto/Aperture were the only things keeping me on OS X, and I didn't really like how they worked.
Does anyone have suggestions for a linux photo manager? I'd like an easy way to view/rate/tag/delete pictures, a sane file system storage structure (i.e. not like iPhoto), and a way to make "albums" out of a bunch of pictures that aren't in the same directory. I'm not too concerned about sharing/etc, as there are plenty of other web-based tools for that.
Open source would be nice (and maybe I should write this...), but I'm happy to pay for something if it will do what I want.
I'll throw in a recommendation for gPhoto; while old and pretty bare bones, it does sane storage structure (customizable, actually), not some silly database. The album export will create static albums you can then upload by hand (or just have them written out to an SSH mount on your web server).
Does anyone have suggestions for a linux photo manager? I'd like an easy way to view/rate/tag/delete pictures, a sane file system storage structure (i.e. not like iPhoto), and a way to make "albums" out of a bunch of pictures that aren't in the same directory. I'm not too concerned about sharing/etc, as there are plenty of other web-based tools for that.
Open source would be nice (and maybe I should write this...), but I'm happy to pay for something if it will do what I want.