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- tuna1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Still waiting on Google Earth....
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9hopefully google's success will inspire some other commercial entities to help/use open source :)
open source benifits as much as the commercial entity does IMO. - CptnObvious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Google Earth is writen with Qt and OpenGL so it shouldn't be to hard to port it over natively.
- inkubux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Yes google did a nice move and di da lot of good contributions to Wine.
Way to go Google :). - GT_Onizuka, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Quite a nifty way to implement it, it seems to run relatively well on my machine too, I'm pretty impressed with it. Although it seemed kinda lazy of google to do it that way, it helped out the Wine project, which is pretty killer imho.
Here's the code that Google contributed to Wine. http://code.google.com/wine.html - eqisow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I believe Google Earth runs just fine under Wine.
- oxigen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Yeah, now I just wait until they release a mac version, so I can get rid of that horrid, absolutely disgusting beast of a program known as iPhoto.
- eqisow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Perhaps, but having a deb, rpm, and loki installer is still very nice. :)
- CptnObvious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6sweet Google Earth is the next to be ported and its on it way, read up ;-)
http://tinyurl.com/ocsf7 - CptnObvious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6they have, Google Earth. However since there apps are not opensource they have to pay some pretty big liceansing fees to use Qt.
- CptnObvious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5trollenlord: that is a fair amount of money for something they give away for free, and you have to add up the man hours as well. Stripping the program down and redoing it to work with a new API is usually not the most cost effective. They simply paid the Crossover guys and they just made it use WINE. In their defense that seems a lot more painless.
Sure picasa isn't native, sure it isn't opensource, sure it doesn't look as good as it could if it were writen with Qt, but its a start and they helped out Wine in the process. - Stonekeeper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5What the heck are you all moaning about??? I just tried Picasa and that's a FINE LOOKING APP!!!! I especially like the font rendering. It's certainly the best looking wine app I've ever seen.
- Ingold, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Thats a pretty cool. Its always good to see stuff like this.
- Derrekito, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8neat read and neat app, thnx.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i downloaded it, tried it out.
Meh.. it's the exact same thing as F-Spot. Maybe if they made it natively for linux i'd use it over F-Spot. Picasssa's layout is much nicer, but i don't like alot of things that are window's centric. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2well linux and linux users benifit by having more choice and wine got more than 100 patches... i don't see your point.
- regeya, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I've used both, and I noticed a huge difference, other than eye candy: Picasa was incredibly useful, while F-Spot had a neato zoomy feature.
I find that digiKam is similar to Picassa in many ways. - lpcustom, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Yea it runs in wine....raggedly I might add....good to point that out.....also picasa is using wine too...and I left picasa open overnight and the whole system was froze the next morning.....so I don't have much faith in Google and their use of wine to make their programs work in linux.....
- jzimmerman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I happen to use Picasa. I even use it under linux.
It beats the crap out of iPhoto and is better at basic photo adjustments and management than just about everything out there. - trollenlord, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4If your Mac is intel based, perhaps you can run the Windows version of Picasa with the Mac version of Wine (Darwine?). Seriously, it most likely would work.
- sneakerelph, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2alternative? how about iPhoto, which should have come free with your mac? not saying that picasa isnt good (using it right now on my Ubuntu dapper box) but iPhoto is great too, IMO.
- trollenlord, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4The API stays 100% the same actually. QT was designed so. I don't know about what else they used but that was the most extensive part. Google has got millions to spend, 5000 dollars is what they burn in one small PR gig party.
- LatvianHedgehog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1damn, wrong thread
- yakk0dotorg, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4just wait, I hear wine is close to working on intel macs.
- forkqueue, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Except that Picasa isn't open source, so I fail to see how Google are supporting it (other than a few Wine patches).
- blankartist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Google is going to release their own Linux distro. And Windows will fall. But software is only part of the equation. That's why they're partnering with Dell. Think about it. What is Dell's long-term strategy? To continue to *shell out* money to Miscrosoft with every PC sold, or to *shell in* money from Google for every PC sold.
You've heard it hear first. :) - NAPO, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3thanks for the suggestion trollenlord.
na, i dont have an intel mac...i have a powerbook, so im pretty sure thats not going to work. - psylence, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2This man speaks the truth.
- trollenlord, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Not really. QT licenses go per developer. It would have costed them miniscule amount of money to roll out native Picasa.
http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/pricing - antigoogle, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3making a stable product on top of wine?? why google doesn't use Qt?
- SilentPurity, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4If only I ever met a person who actually uses Picasa, or better yet a Linux person who would want to use Picasa.
- NAPO, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1are there any alternatives other than iPhoto?
- Spaz007, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2Its been running on Wine for over a year.
- trollenlord, on 10/12/2007, -11/+0Perhaps the crappiest possible way to implement it. They could have used native libraries, licensing QT would have costed only couple thousand dollars.
- NAPO, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2WHEN IS IT GONNA COME OUT FOR MAC!!!!!! I NEED THIS FOR MAC OS!!!!! (by the way, is there an alternative lol?)
- jimmyM, on 10/12/2007, -35/+4somebody do me a favor and go to dirtyfratboy's house and punch him the face and scream "stop submitting stoies!" at him.
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