Thanks for the link. However, this is not an installation from scratch, as everybody is suggesting in this list, as a way to solve some problems.
This guide uses Google's deb package, even though it updates Picasa to 3.6, but it keeps using the internal (and old) wine binaries provided by the Picasa deb package. >Hi Jose, > > > >if you follow this, then you will keep the integration and have 3.6 > >Both of best worlds :) > >http://www.webupd8.org/2010/04/how-to-install-picasa-36-in-ubuntu.html > > > >On 4 aug, 23:14, Jose Gómez wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Here everybody seems to suggest update the Windows version of Picasa on > your > >> normal installation of Wine, instead of using the Linux deb package and > >> update the containing Picasa program. > >> > >> Indeed, this seem to fix many problems some users are having. > >> > >> However, there is a big issue of using the Windows version of Picasa: > you > >> totally lose the desktop integration. For example: > >> > >> - Firefox detecting that Picasa is installed, and thus allowing you > to > >> download an album > >> - The option "locate on disk" opening a native explorer (Nautilus) > >> instead of emulated explorer.exe or similar. > >> - Other integration that I can't recall at this moment. > >> > >> Is there any way of applying these integration tweaks to the Windows > version > >> of Picasa? Maybe creating a custom Picasa package that only contained > the > >> desktop integration scripts, but not Wine or Picasa binaries? > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Jose. > -- 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.
