[Klug-general] Google Releases Picasa For Linux

Dan Attwood danattwood at googlemail.com
Wed May 31 18:55:07 BST 2006


It seems like a fudge to me. It would be way better if they did a native
port. Plus at the end of the day Picassa'a pretty good but there are a
hundred and one photo apps on linux, F-spot, eye of the gnome etc.
Now a native port of google earth, that's something to get excited about


On 31/05/06, George Prowse <cokehabit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> they aren't, just click on the link and it takes you to picasa for linux
>
> On 26/05/06, Karl Lattimer <karl at nncc.info > wrote:
>
> >  I heard this was gonna happen a couple months ago on the wine-devel
> > list, they hired a couple of wines developers to fix some wine->picassa
> > issues, they're also going to make google earth work perfectly through wine
> > after SoC is finished with. Its great that they are supporting linux but
> > they could do complete native ports rather than wine ports of the apps. I
> > would much rather see a GTK2 version of picassa than wrapped win32 CAPI.
> >
> > Anyone got any ideas why they may be restricting it to US only?
> >
> > K,
> >
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