Facebook plugin works if you install ie6 in picasa's wine configuration. On Apr 14, 8:49 am, blackhawkover <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey. I really love Picasa, and think we are really on track here. I > just have a few general comments, but they are just my opinion, and > only reflect my views, but are similar to the views of some of my > peers. > > 1. I love that Google is getting on the linux train - i only use > chrome browser, here at home and at work where we've just switched to > linux on all machines. I am counting, waiting and wishing for a Chrome > OS to test drive on a desktop. Good on you guys, keep it up. > 2. I cannot use the facebook plugin properly. It starts the right > away, but I can't see the picture I'm uploading, so I go to "older" > version and once I login, it gives a url that goes nowhere. I have to > search more for this in case I am doing something wrong, but this > seems weird. If the facebook plugin worked properly, My wife would > would probably become your greatest spokesperson because of how > quickly and easily and wonderfully the rest of Picasa works. > 3. I don't think wine is a real smart move because it seems unstable > in Ubuntu, though it does work, mostly...but not entirely. I haven't > had a lot of success with ubnutu liking wine but I am still getting > the hang of it, but it seems like a band-aid solution, it seems > unstable, doesn't always look right (like "sign in" and "album" > buttons in top right of Picasa are highly distorted, but you can still > tell what it is), and just seems backwards. I would think that there > could be a great google revolution in linux that could be made made > perfect in unix. I am NOT a programmer, so I really don't know what > the implications of that are, but I honestly don't think wine is a > REAL solution. > 4. the lack of Camera recognition is understandable, that newer > cameras would be more recognized, but too bad. We do a work around > using gthumb photo import tool, and then move to Picasa to edit and > sort and browse photos, so it works, but just one more step. > > All of this to say, that programs like gthumb, F-spot and others are a > simple solution to of these problems, but holy crap could Picasa take > over that market, in my eyes if a few of these things were looked at. > I give this as a humble suggestion, asking you consider it. Thanks so > much. > > -blackhawkover
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