Comments on: Google Picasa on Ubuntu

By: jacek

jacek — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:14:31 +0000

you must be using an old version, I’ve been using the Linux version to upload to picasaweb ever since I downloaded it. (from the google page)

By: Maxo

Maxo — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:41:29 +0000

Ironically, running the Windows version of Picasa in Wine gives you a more funcational version of Picasa.
The Linux version lacks support for many things, such as uploading your photos to picasaweb.

By: Mahyar

Mahyar — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:07:30 +0000

Picasa didn’t work for me on Gutsy. In fact, when I had it, it froze my PC completely so I had to remove it and now I just use G-Spot. It works at least.

By: Wolfger

Wolfger — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:08:31 +0000

Why the WINE hate? WINE *is* native Linux code, just like your favorite GNOME/KDE/whatever libraries, so Picasa for Linux is as Native as any other photo management tool you might use. It’s not like Google said “hey, grab WINE and see if our product works”… They *designed* it to use the WINE libraries. They *wrote code* for WINE so that they would have all the tools they needed to give us Picasa.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:35:27 +0000

I wonder if I did something wrong when I installed it then…although not on Ubuntu but Mepis, and I used google’s own repo.

Or maybe it is a gnome vs kde issue. Thing is, for me it installed under its own submenu as it should. Graphics->Picasa, and the Picasa menu had the program proper as well as a settings program.

Still, a nice program even if on the slow side. Other things runs fast under wine so I don’t think wine is the problem either.

BTW, anyone know how one disables that darn media-detector program?