Nice of them to bother to tell us oh a month after the fact being wine phobic I've moved to digikam, which has reasonably good integration with G+ the facial recognition & geotagging stuff is there, I don't use them so I have know idea if it works this group has no official affiliation with Google, so will continue as long as it's active
On Saturday, April 21, 2012 7:29:23 AM UTC-7, mhenriday wrote: > > Den fredagen den 20:e april 2012 kl. 21:50:56 UTC+2 skrev leiz: >> >> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/spring-cleaning-in-spring.html >> says: >> >> "We launched a WINE-based version of Picasa for Linux in 2006 as a >> Google Labs project. As we continue to enhance Picasa, it has become >> difficult to maintain parity on the Linux version. So today, we’re >> deprecating Picasa for Linux and will not be maintaining it moving >> forward. Users who have downloaded and installed older versions of >> Picasa for Linux can continue to use them, though we won’t be making >> any further updates." >> >> Also: >> >> "Starting today, the Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Mac and Picasa Web >> Albums Plugin for iPhoto will no longer be available for download. >> People can continue to use the uploader and plugin if they are >> installed. However, we’ll no longer maintain these tools. We strongly >> encourage people to download Picasa 3.9 for Mac, which includes upload >> and iPhoto import features." >> >> On Apr 2, 2:13 pm, OpenCage <[email protected]> wrote: >> > http://picasa.google.com/linux/shows 404 error. > > > «As we continue to enhance Picasa, it has become difficult to maintain > parity on the Linux version.» Which, of course, is to be translated as > follows «Some beancounter estimated that it might cost a few extra pennies > to update, so we, in our poverty and great need, felt constrained to quite. > Thank you and good night and God Bless whatever....» > > Oh well, by this time most of us do know how to install and run the latest > Picasa versions for Windows via Wine and those who don't can always seek > help here - *id est*, until this group also becomes «deprecated», as the > phrase goes.... > > Henri > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-labs-picasa-for-linux/-/30F-y4t8uKkJ. 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.
