Hi, On Jan 23, 10:24 pm, James Laugesen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > But with the support of those who make all the underlying native libraries that WINE would no longer be a poorly-fit patch over.
Honestly, I depend on several linux applications daily that are not part of my standard distribution but are nonetheless packaged for several distributions by independent teams (or sometimes individuals) without the resources of google. > 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. > Both of these points assume WINE to be a necessary or central part of Linux. I disagree. > 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). > I don't actually think it benefits the linux community to embrace secondary citizenship and accept "mostly working" Windows applications running in emulation. Keep in mind Windows emulation has long been a moving target - WINE and mono have had a lot of great technical talent pushing them forward, but are continuously yanked back from full compatibility with every MS release of the respective products. "Just focus on the windows version, we'll make due" should give way to "Ignore our market at your peril". I'm watching the shotwell project somewhat anxiously. > Of course, it would be cool to have a native version; but we'd have to be > prepared for new problems ;-) I'd look forward to solvable problems. cheers, Philip -- 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.
