On Saturday 27 May 2006 02:34 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 09:27 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:
Just thought y'all would like to know. Google has opened a link to a version of Picassa for Linux. Since I've been using it on my Win2K system, I thought I'd give it a whirl. It works nice! I've never been really fond of Digikam or FSpot so this will work great for me.
I think it is the Windows version running via Wine. A box in the right of the page spills the beans.
Perhaps if there are enough downloads they will consider a native port ;)
That was my original goal. However, I think they will leave it as is. Apparently it is using an 'embedded' version of Crossover Office which gives them the WINE libs they need. Since they bought Picassa as an already created Win32 PE application, they don't want to rewrite it. However, on the Google list, I saw a few of the employees mention that they are working on a true Linux port of Google Earth, since it is apparently already written in Qt - the very cool library which also runs the very kool KDE. Stand by...same bat time....same bat channel... -- k