Hello everyone, I haven't been active here in a long time, but I have to chime in; I disagree with most comments. Pushing Google to release a native picasa client will very likely _not_ improve the "negative" experiences you/we have (broadly I mean, not specifically).
Given that most Picasa+WINE+Linux issues are dependent on the idiosyncrasies of the many linux flavours & installs (ie, not everyone has the same problems, the fedora x86_64 comments earlier for example); a native picasa client would still be susceptible to those kinds of issues, and the Picasa team would still have to deal with them - without the support of CodeWeavers, CrossOver & WINE communities & existing capabilities. If the developers & architects believe a native client would be overly beneficial (ie performance, release consistency, whatever) they would consider it. Where-as sticking to WINE releases has been very beneficial for the WINE project and CodeWeavers. I don't know for a fact, but I imagine that "they" consider the pros of releasing under WINE (thus supporting WINE & CodeWeavers) to outweigh the cons of a non-native version. There's been a couple of open-source comments; well WINE is open, if you want to "fix" things, get involved with WINE. Whether we like it or not Windows is still the primary market, and developing WINE benefits the broader community improving the operation of other Windows apps... it's a no-brainer as far as I'm concerned (to support WINE). Of course, it would be cool to have a native version; but we'd have to be prepared for new problems ;-) 2010/1/24 [email protected] <[email protected]> > Please give us a native linux version of picasa and show all the other > software companies how its done. If we had more support for linux it > would be a more viable option. > > > > On Jan 20, 9:01 am, João Sousa <[email protected]> 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]<google-labs-picasa-for-linux%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-picasa-for-linux?hl=en. > > -- 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.
