On 11/13/2014 02:54 PM, Patrick B. Shanahan wrote:
* The Real Bev <bashley...@gmail.com> [11-13-14 17:41]:
On 11/13/2014 01:15 PM, Patrick B. Shanahan wrote:
[...]
>I have ver 3.9.0 (Build 136,2000,0) for linux.
When you upgraded, how did you do it? I'm using slackware, which has
quirks of its own that make things difficult (I had to do really
weird stuff with libraries in order to upgrade google earth), and
I've been afraid that attempting to upgrade to 3.9 will wreck my
current version of wine or picasa or something else.
Not sure it is worth the bother but:
having winetricks installed, from directory containing
picasa39-setup.exe:
having winetricks installed, from directory containing picasa39-setup.exe:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/<user>/.winepicasa" wine picasa39-setup.136.20.exe
note: also tried from a different directory with
/<path-to>/picasa39-setup.exe **which** did **not** work!
but "Sign in with Google Account" does not work for me.
Picasa installed with a late version of crossover office does not complete
the "Sign in with Google Account", either.
They clearly don't want us to do it the easy way. I'll think about it...
I doubt seriously that I will bother to do another picasa install. I
Apparently there are on-site editing tools at google photos. Haven't
investigated, though.
cannot remember the last time I used it for *anything*. I use darktable
for most everything now. It is excellent, built on/for linux, and
provides great results. It also catalogues. Interface is different but
every graphic editor I have ever used had a learning curve, even picasa
but picasa is dumbed down so much that it becomes merely a half-assed
answer. And after learning the path to greatness via any other graphic
editor, picasa is no easier.
I've used gimp and some of the photoshop stuff, but I just don't want to
do that much manipulation. There are only a few things I'd like picasa
to do:
1. Enable you to enlarge photos. I shrink them to 1600 pixels so
they're free to store on the website, but cropped pix stay the original
<1600 cropped size. Annoying.
2. "Straighten" is nice, but doesn't go far enough; I hate taking
wide-angle pictures of things and not having vertical lines vertical.
If I care enough I can fix that with gimp, but mostly I don't care that
much.
I'll give darktable a shot, but "easy" counts for a lot :-( I remember
that I liked Irfanview when I was using windows...
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