Google Windows Apps Coming To Linux

skaet writes "DesktopLinux.com reports that Google is working together with CodeWeavers to bring their photo editing and sharing program Picasa, formerly only available on Windows, over to Linux. From the article: 'The program is now in a limited beta test. If this program is successful, other Google applications will be following it to the Linux desktop, sources say. The Linux Picasa implementation includes the full feature set of the Windows Picasa 2.x software. It is not, strictly speaking, a port of Picasa to Linux. Instead, Linux Picasa combines Windows Picasa code and Wine technology to run Windows Picasa on Linux. This, however, will be transparent to Linux users, when they download, install, and run the free program on their systems.'"

Comments

Re:Boneheads

[westlake]

It's 2006 and Google, one the supposed leading tech companies in the world, is still writing their apps with the Win32 API???

It is 2006 and win32 is 97% of the market for desktop apps like Picassa.

Re:not another Goomur, but almost...

[mikeisme77]

Have you ever USED Picasa? It's an APPLICATION (not a WEB application) that runs on your desktop and helps you organize and perform basic edits/adjustments to your images. It also has the added feature (after Google bought it a couple years ago) of allowing users to easily upload pictures to their blogspot or e-mail it through GMail (not sure about the GMail feature as I haven't tried the latest version, but I seem to remember hearing about this). It's got an awesome GUI, but other than that (and the Google specific tie-ins) it doesn't do much more than other photo organizing apps already available in Linux.

Still, this is a decent start. I'd be more excited about them porting the desktop search (as long as I can still disable the sharing of info. to Google).

Re:Wine Source Code Patching

[tondrej]

Although Kylix is named after a Greek wine-drinking cup and the Kylix IDE itself does use WINE, the produced executables do not depend on WINE. The CLX library uses Qt runtime.