Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-30 Thread Smith, Leo
Since Wine runs under OS X do you think this build of Picasa would work?   Leo Smith City of Concord Information Technology Department 1950 Parkside Dr. Concord, CA 94519   925 671 3277   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-27 Thread Nick Law
Dan Kegel wrote: On 5/26/06, Nick Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess I could create a symbolic link from the fonts directory in wine but where is the linux version of Picasa expecting to find these fonts Probably ~/.picasa/drive_c/windows/fonts, or something like that. The directory

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-27 Thread Nick Law
Another quick note just saw the mistake I made with the URL, so here it is again ... This URL will display the pages in English but will not allow the download to take place ... so read about it here http://www.freeproxy.us/index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3BpY2FzYS5nb29nbGUuY29tL2xpbnV4L2luZGV4L

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-27 Thread Nick Law
I guess I could create a symbolic link from the fonts directory in wine but where is the linux version of Picasa expecting to find these fonts ? Sorry I should be able to find them with find but I seem to have folders with fonts in several locations. Dan Kegel wrote: On 5/26/06, Nick Law <

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-27 Thread Nick Law
I 've loaded and installed the .bin version, installation went flawlessly, I told it to index the whole hard drive it started doing that then after 30 seconds or do a message box poped up --- FATAL ERROR -- "Picasa cannot continue", it completely hung, the OK button was unresponsive and I had

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-27 Thread Nick Law
Dan Kegel wrote: On 5/26/06, Nick Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Having looked at both the linux version and the windows version running on 0.9.14 I must admit that I prefer the windows version running on 0.9.14 simply because the fonts look much better on my system Could it be that you had

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-27 Thread Cihan Altinay
Detlef Riekenberg wrote: New! Picasa for Linux Google's photo organizer now available for Linux users. The Link-Target: http://picasa.google.com/linux/ results in: Google Error Not Found The requested URL /linux/ was not found on this server. According to this (s

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-27 Thread Nick Law
And here's a working english link for those outside the US, I wonder why the normal links don't work for those outside the US ? http://picasa.google.com.nyud.net:8080/linux/thanks-other.html It takes you straight to the .bin download with it's selfextracting installer. Nick Law wrote: Having

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-27 Thread Nick Law
Having looked at both the linux version and the windows version running on 0.9.14 I must admit that I prefer the windows version running on 0.9.14 simply because the fonts look much better on my system ( if anybody is interested I can send a couple of screen shots), i.e the font look more like

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-27 Thread David Goodenough
Dan Kegel wrote: > Google has indeed been working on Picasa, and it's finally available for > download at > http://labs.google.com/ I tried this, and the link to the linux version apparently does not exist! David > > For the curious, here are a few tidbits about how it came to be. > > When Go

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-27 Thread Nick Law
I spoke to soon, they seems to be a couple of show stoppers on the windows on wine 0.9.14 and on the linux versions, i.e. hangs or not wanting to run at all. Can somebody let me know where I should report these problems to ? I assume this this not the correct place.. Nick Nick Law wrote: And

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-26 Thread Dan Kegel
On 5/26/06, Eric Pouech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Two features left out of the Linux version were CD-ROM > burning (the driver Picasa uses is hard to support under Wine) > and movie playback (Wine doesn't have the necessary codecs). can you provide more details about those two points (which c

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-26 Thread Dan Kegel
On 5/26/06, Nick Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess I could create a symbolic link from the fonts directory in wine but where is the linux version of Picasa expecting to find these fonts Probably ~/.picasa/drive_c/windows/fonts, or something like that. The directory might not exist by def

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-26 Thread Eric Pouech
Dan Kegel wrote: Two features left out of the Linux version were CD-ROM burning (the driver Picasa uses is hard to support under Wine) and movie playback (Wine doesn't have the necessary codecs). Hi Dan, can you provide more details about those two points (which cdrom driver and which driver

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-26 Thread Molle Bestefich
Stefan Dösinger wrote: > I get a 404 on http://picasa.google.com/linux/. > Works only from inside the U.S. Lame. Why? You can use google translator as a proxy Hah! So you can. Funky :-D. Thanks!

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-26 Thread Dan Kegel
On 5/26/06, Nick Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Having looked at both the linux version and the windows version running >> on 0.9.14 I must admit that I prefer the windows version running on >> 0.9.14 simply because the fonts look much better on my system > > Could it be that you had fonts ins

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-26 Thread Stefan Dösinger
Am Freitag, 26. Mai 2006 10:19 schrieb Molle Bestefich: > Dan Kegel wrote: > > Google has indeed been working on Picasa, and it's finally available for > > download at > > http://labs.google.com/ > > I get a 404 on http://picasa.google.com/linux/. > > But great news anyway :-). Works only from in

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-26 Thread Dan Kegel
On 5/26/06, Nick Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Having looked at both the linux version and the windows version running on 0.9.14 I must admit that I prefer the windows version running on 0.9.14 simply because the fonts look much better on my system Could it be that you had fonts installed alre

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-26 Thread Jeremy White
> Thanks to the Wine community for a very capable platform! And I'd like to thank Google, and Dan in particular, for an amazing contribution to Wine! Cheers, Jeremy

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-26 Thread Detlef Riekenberg
Am Donnerstag, den 25.05.2006, 18:50 -0700 schrieb Dan Kegel: > Google has indeed been working on Picasa, and it's finally available for > download at > http://labs.google.com/ Great! On the Labs-Page, the first Entry is: New! Picasa for Linux Google's photo organizer now available for L

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-26 Thread Dan Kegel
On 5/26/06, Nick Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I spoke to soon, they seems to be a couple of show stoppers on the windows on wine 0.9.14 and on the linux versions, i.e. hangs or not wanting to run at all. Can somebody let me know where I should report these problems to ? I assume this this not

Re: Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-26 Thread Molle Bestefich
Dan Kegel wrote: Google has indeed been working on Picasa, and it's finally available for download at http://labs.google.com/ I get a 404 on http://picasa.google.com/linux/. But great news anyway :-).

Picasa for Linux available!

2006-05-25 Thread Dan Kegel
Google has indeed been working on Picasa, and it's finally available for download at http://labs.google.com/ For the curious, here are a few tidbits about how it came to be. When Google wanted to port Picasa to Linux, they faced a problem: the Picasa team was busy working on new projects, and h