On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:17:46 pm The Wassermans wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 21:12 +1000, Martin Visser wrote: > > I would disagree here. For display photographic images, almost no work > > is being done by the graphics card. Any basic card running as a frame
[ ... ] > Greetings Martin, > > I just downloaded and tried gThumb. My first impressions are that it > slidescreen's very much better than both Picasa & F-Spot. Just as you > said. I will spend some time with it to see if I will adopt it in > favour of the others. gwenview isn't too bad either. It's the default image viewer in Kubuntu(KDE). > Much of the technical discussion that has been going on is well above > me. But I'm trying to digest some of it. Maybe one day I too will be > able to converse so technically? If you want it badly enough, you shall have it badly enough. *_^ does that make sense? Anywho, it's not that hard if you just muck around and take some time to read man pages, technical_reviews, articles _regularly_. It's an interesting metaverse of it's own. ;) > You say that Picasa for Linux is really an emulation using intergrated > Wine? And therefore some aspects of the Windows version are > compromised? Or were you assuming I had loaded Wine in order to run > Picasa? Might be the same thing really? Picasa runs off wine (reverse acronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator). Basically it's a software library that provides the same/atleast_try_to_provide_the_same feature set as win32 dlls (Shared software libraries in windows) so that windows programs that depend on win32 library/s can instead link into wine libraries and use the dlls there like in Microsoft windows. Hence, I believe, the software that run natively on Microsoft windows may not be as fast as the wine equivalents because of extra overhead underlying the function calls from wine dlls<->glibc<->kernel (I could be dead wrong in the water here! If so, please rectify me). Hope that's not too hard to understand from technical perspective. cheers -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
