On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]> wrote: > * 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.
I don't consider a Wine wrapper attractive. > >> 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. That's more images than most folks deal with. > >> 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. And, I think Google would do well to make Picasa the obvious choice for those ~3%, many of which are considered computer 'experts', and offer valued opinions. > > -- > Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 > http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 > Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
