Dear Google,
I have enjoyed your many different services over the years, I have grown to depend on several apps you make to simplify my life. Picasa manages my pictures, Google Apps my email, and Adsense helps pay the bills. I wish I could say this all makes me happy, but honestly I feel a little cheated when I find that Picasa is not natively supported on Linux.
I can understand time is an issue, I understand encasing the windows version in a WINE instance is a easy fix, but i do not understand why a company with its own Linux OS (Android) can not take the time to make a implementation of their apps such as Picasa using native Libs and tools.
This might seem trivial coming from one person, but Google I am sure others feel the same way, Google do you really wish to fix issues pertained to a Windows version of Picasa running in Linux on a WINE instance? I ask you would the developmental process not be more streamlined if you had a native APP?
I have had issues in the past with software running in WINE, and I ask why when a company that is clearly interested in Linux could make a Linux native client?
Ok Google I know what your going to say, We just don”t have time today! Well I say, come on lets go and make the code avalible to the community today!
Thanks for your time, sorry to waste your dime, I really must stop this rhyme before i do not have time, to send this Letter.
Thanks,
Andrew Jamison – Google user and Linux Enthusiast
You know there are plenty of Free photo management apps available natively on Linux? I personally don”t use any, staying with Nautilus + eog for my *huge* collection of photos, but tried some.
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It would be far more efficient for Google to finance the development of Picasa integration for a project like F-Spot or Shotwell…
Actually, if you run Windows apps with WINE under Linux, they run like native apps, as far as I understand.
I think WINE is just an implementation of the Win32 libraries for Linux and similar systems.
The GUI just looks a bit old-fashioned though, but if they explicitely fix problems with it running in WINE, where”s the problem? (I mean, apart from the “feeling” that it”s a Windows app)