Comment 25 for bug 853373

Maui: thanks for letting us know that you're still not seeing RW2 files in Shotwell. It's difficult for us to test this since we don't have a camera that shoots RW2 here at Yorba, but we'll see what we can do.

Most GNOME programs (such as Nautilus or gedit or Totem) require the latest versions of all GNOME libraries if you want to build from trunk. I wouldn't say that this is "a mess" or that these libraries are "fancy stuff"; that's completely normal in the GNOME world. In fact, Shotwell is more generous than most GNOME programs in this respect: you can run the latest version of Shotwell even on the previous release of distributions like Ubuntu. For example, the upcoming Shotwell 0.12 will run either on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) or on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric). If you want to run the latest Nautilus or Totem, you must run the latest GNOME, found in Ubuntu 12.04.