On Thursday 11 May 2006 22:37, chrisisbd@leary2.csoft.net wrote:
Are there any programs like Picasa which run on Linux? I'm after something for organising my digital and scanned photographs. I don't want anything very clever, Picasa is actually pretty close to what I want except that I'd prefer to be able to manipulate the *real* folder hierarchy rather than a pseudo-hierarchy.
Sorry to spam, but last night I couldn't help thinking the picasa on linux thing rang a bell, I thought I'd seen something about it.
Something drew me to May's LXF, where I found what had been bugging me. On page 7, there's an article about Picasa 2 "for Linux" being worked on by Google (standalone winelib/crossover port apparently) and in the closed beta stage.
"Google's ambition is to make Picasa 2 as easy to install as the Windows version, and though CrossOver technology will be used, users won't need to purchase any extra software to run the application."
Upon successful porting, future Picasa versions are also to be written specifically to wine's APIs so that they work on windows and other platforms.
I'm not a picasa user, so it didn't jump easily to mind at the time, but this may be interesting to yourself. :)
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