I have followed that guide and all integration problems were solved. So it does work.
On 5 aug, 14:41, Jose Gómez <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
