[Cialug] Picasa for Linux

[Don Cady]

>On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 13:41 -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
>> This may be old news to some, but I just ran into it. Picasa for
>> Linux has been released.
>>
>> http://picasa.google.com/linux/
>
>And it uses Wine in some fashion.  Perhaps Google used Wine as a quick
>way to port the Windows version to Linux...  Anyway, I haven't used
>Picasa that much so I can't compare but F-Spot is another photo
>management program written that's a little more open-source friendly.
>
>Jeff

Yep.
"Picasa for Linux runs the current Windows version of Picasa using a 
carefully tested version of Wine.."
"To allow Picasa to run well on Linux, Google made a few improvements to 
Wine. Some of the changes were Picasa-specific and simply added a bit of 
polish. ...... None of the changes were proprietary to Google, and all have 
been contributed to the Wine project. The source for all the changes is 
available at http://code.google.com/wine.html"
" In January 2006, Google contracted with CodeWeavers to improve Wine so 
that it could run Picasa version 2.2 properly. Some of the changes fix bugs 
in Wine; others implement previously unimplemented features. As of 18 April 
2006, 225 patches have been committed to the winehq tree git as a result of 
this effort."

And from the FAQ:
"Q:  Will more Google applications be ported to Linux under Wine?
If Picasa for Linux is successful, then other Google applications (and 
future versions of Picasa) may also be written to the Wine APIs so that they 
can easily run on both Windows and Linux. ...."

Don