I can explain the "fuss". WINE is a resource hog - wine apps just don't run well on my laptop, and god forbid anyone try to use picasa/linux on a netbook... So that means that it's a pain to use on my ubuntu laptop.
But the larger issue is depending on a port for an application you use with any regularity. I gave up on picasa after spending far too much time trying to get it to work on my fedora x86_64 desktop (still doesn't, no responses to any of the issues posted on that platform here). I think it is fair to consider the app "unsupported" on x86_64. I gave picasa another go after taking google up on the 200M + eye-fi card deal a month or so ago, but I'm ready to write off the disk space as a loss & go back to flickr. The irony here is that it was actually google that taught me that a web app that works is better than a desktop app that doesn't. p On Jan 20, 2:08 pm, Jonathan Kamens <[email protected]> wrote: > As I've said before, I really don't understand what the fuss is about > native vs. WINE. In my experience, the WINE version of Picasa 3.0 is > one of the best applications I've ever used on my Linux box, native or > otherwise. > > I want to be able to run the current version of Picasa on my Linux box, > but I frankly don't give a flying fig whether Google delivers that by > doing a native port or just updating their WINE Picasa package to the > current version. > > Jonathan Kamens > > On 01/20/2010 09:01 AM, Jo o Sousa wrote: > > > Please Google, We want a native Linux Picasa! Give us a GTK native > > Linux Picasa application. We want it, we need it. We don't want to use > > MS Windows anymore, or a hacked wine version. Are you listening to us? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-picasa-for-linux?hl=en.
