On Jun 23, 4:25 am, Dominik Szczerba <[email protected]> wrote:

> The application does not run natively, it runs through Windows
> emulation. As a result you see windows as you would see Windows.

Technically, WINE = "Wine Is Not a Windows Emulator". WINE has no
similarities to a tool such as VirtualBox.  You *HAVE* to have a legal
and licensed copy of a MS operating system to run it in VirtualBox
(or any other emulator for that matter).

> It implies that the application appearance totally ignores the desktop
> settings in general, and accessibility colors in particular. That is a
> big shame again, Google! Again, because Google consistently ignores
> user color preferences throughout all their products. I can't imagine
> Google has no knowledge nor resources to deliver a proper cross-
> platform application,

> You are far better off running Picasa Windows on
> linux using the free VirtualBox.

And for those who don't own a legal copy of a Windows OS?

> For potential Picasa linux users: try F-spot first, it is a free photo
> management application. It installs as an Ubuntu package, runs
> natively on your desktop and publishes photos to a range of web
> services (including Picasa Web). As a linux user you natively have
> Gimp and ImageMagick, by far superseding any editing capabilities of
> Picasa anyway.

You can't compare GIMP and ImageMagick to a photo editor such
as Picasa. GIMP and ImageMagick are bimap editors and have a
different purpose when discussing photographic images, compared
to photo editors such as Picasa, Lightroom, LightZone, etc.

I'd say try LightZone if you want a serious photo editing experience
on a Linux distro.

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