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Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot)Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot)Posted May 26, 2006 15:04 UTC (Fri) by pbardet (guest, #22762)Parent article: Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot)
Maybe they should ask Audacity coders how to produce multi-platform software. I guess Picasa will stay away from my desktop until it becomes native.
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Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot) Posted May 26, 2006 15:27 UTC (Fri) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link] I'd much rather see a native version as well - after all, f-spot does most of what picasso does anyway.
I'll check out picasa and give it a whirl, but I suspect its peecee heritage will reveal itself in awkward and irritating little quirks...
Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot) Posted May 26, 2006 15:42 UTC (Fri) by beoba (guest, #16942) [Link] I suppose one of the bonuses of working in a web services company is that you usually only have to worry about one architecture: yours.
Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot) Posted May 26, 2006 19:41 UTC (Fri) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] Well, they bought this from someone else, yeah? They may not have made some of the same decisions were it started from scratch.
Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot) Posted May 26, 2006 19:40 UTC (Fri) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] I'm guessing the answer would be "Use a multi-platform toolkit".
Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot) Posted May 27, 2006 8:00 UTC (Sat) by Arker (guest, #14205) [Link] I'm a big google fan, and I'm not going to slam them over this. They contributed a lot of work to WINE, and that's not a bad thing. But I have to say, it doesn't impress me at all when a company announces support for 'linux' but it turns out they only support a very limited subset of linux - if something runs on linux that means a lot more platforms than just linux-x86.
So, this won't run on my primary machine even if I wanted it. Which I don't believe I do. I know some people are big fans of the program (including my father, who very well may wind up using it on his linux-x86 box just because he's used to it and comfortable with it) but there's already perfectly good software for this on linux like digikam. Real software, source code, that really runs on linux, rather than an opaque binary (mushware) that only runs on a subset of linux systems. And does Picasa actually do anything that digikam doesn't?
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