* Kent Tenney <[email protected]> [02-23-10 14:24]:
> I certainly hope Google rethinks the decision to not release
> native Linux Picasa clients.

It is improbably that they will commit the required resources, which
would be quite large.

> Lots of developers and trend setters use Linux, and managing
> image files is becoming more important every day.

agreed

> The article mentions low adoption, however, I'm sure there would
> be widespread adoption and good PR for Google if they committed
> to Picasa on Linux.

also, agreed.

> Picasa is not a good choice for Linux users if Wine is required,
> the process becomes brittle and cumbersome, the promise of
> Picasa is "It just works".

I don't see this, picasa 3.6 is (a qualified) quite good.

> A native version would very soon become the image manager
> of choice, none of the current options are satisfactory.

Depending on your workflow, bibble5pro is quite better, but is proprietary.

Picasa3 has a major failing for those who shoot raw.  It processess
images individually.  One shooting any larger number of images would be
processing images forever.  I shoot youth sports and have no problem
having to process 1600-2000 raw images for a weekend shoot.  No way to do
this in Picasa.  I would be spending all my time in front of a computer.

> Google surprises me with their lack of vision, pinching pennies and
> passing up the opportunity to rule the Linux image file world.

??  You are not considering the present user-base, which, iirc, is less
than 3% world-wide.

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