Thursday, December 24, 2009

What's in the Picasa for Linux?

I just wanted to put my new pictures somewhere so I was looking a good site to put - and here we go, I gave a shot to Google Picasa since it has a native linux client. I though.

At the first glance it's slow. And not handy since it import all my folders without any question. I checked, and what I found?

~/.google/picasa/3.0$ ls -la
total 648
drwxr-xr-x 4 toma toma   4096 2009-12-24 22:57 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 toma toma   4096 2009-12-24 22:54 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 toma toma      0 2009-12-24 22:54 .firstrun
-rw-r--r-- 1 toma toma     16 2009-12-24 22:54 .gnomehal
-rw-r--r-- 1 toma toma     11 2009-12-24 22:54 .update-timestamp
drwxr-xr-x 2 toma toma   4096 2009-12-24 22:54 dosdevices
drwxr-xr-x 5 toma toma   4096 2009-12-24 22:54 drive_c
lrwxrwxrwx 1 toma toma     39 2009-12-24 22:54 generic.ppd -> /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/generic.ppd
-rw-r--r-- 1 toma toma   2867 2009-12-24 22:59 picasa.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 toma toma 549622 2009-12-24 22:55 system.reg
-rw-r--r-- 1 toma toma  68072 2009-12-24 22:57 user.reg
-rw-r--r-- 1 toma toma   2275 2009-12-24 22:54 userdef.reg
Wow, what? drive_c ? Doesn't ring the bell? It might be related to wine..
And unfortunately it is. So google is using wine for porting picasa for linux.
I have no comment ATM.

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