* graemev <[email protected]> [11-23-10 17:23]: > OK, let me just check what "working fine" is ? > > 1: You install Picasa 3.8 (for windoze) using 'standard wine' > 2: You plug in a USB mounted mass storage (so a modern Camera or a USB > stick, SD card) > 3: gnome launches Picasa
no, kde4 > > ...this is the critical bit ... > > 4: You get an import button (so if usb storage got mount at /media/ > disk , it's there if it got mounted at /media/cf1234 then there) > 5: You can see all the jpg and RAW images? yes > 6: You can import & delete imported (via checkbox) yes > 7: The EXIF information stays intact? what picasa imports stays intact. picasa does not import the complete exif information on any platform, to my knowledge. > (because I could just import the jpegs without exif ... that happens > via PTP ... but Picasa can do a whole lot better than that) ... I do > have a PTP camera also ... and it only > works that way. I remove the CF card from my D200/D3 and import from the card. I do not/will no plug my camera for transferreing pix. > After I'd thought about what was happening I was confused about how a > windows program could find out what mount point a USB storage device > had got mounted on? Having seen extra bits added in Linux version of > Picasa (buy Goggle I assume) , I could see how this works ... the > windows .exe ended up getting called with an argument > saying where the drive was. wine configures/negotiates file/drive access, not picasa on linux, and windoz operating system does the same on that platform. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-picasa-for-linux?hl=en.
