Nah Picasa is an amateur tool for amatuers; if you want perspective correction I'd suggest a professional tool. Not sure if GIMP can do this as I'm a Photoshop-er.
If you want to do things like upgrade to 3rd party tools; Slack isn't really a good distribution for that unless you want to the administration headaches of what you went through in the past. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:25 PM, The Real Bev <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/26/11 05:59, caldercay wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2:16 am, curano<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Because Picasa Linux version doesn't run with Fedora 14, >>> I switched to the Wine Windows version as proposed. >>> >> ...... [snipped] >> >> How about taking the effort to fix the Linux version (beta) of Picasa >>> with the result that Linux users don't have to install Wine to run >>> Windows applications. >>> >> >> You are mistaken. There is no such thing as a >> "Picasa for Linux", i.e., there is no Linux *native* >> version of Picasa. >> >> The "Linux version (beta) of Picasa" as you mention >> *is* the native Windows Picasa application, with a >> customized (and bundled with) version of WINE. >> >> The download found here: http://picasa.google.com/linux/ >> and the package most folks see in their Linux distro's >> software application package management system >> *is* the Windows platform-specific version of Picasa with >> WINE (customized by Google) bundled. >> >> A number of folks in this forum recommend ditching that >> version of Picasa, then install the latest version of WINE >> specific to their distro, then install the latest version of >> Picasa (Windows platform). >> >> The issues of running Picasa on the recent versions of >> the Fedora distro are specific to Fedora. >> > > I am using slackware 12 and am unable to update to a newer version with the > hardware I have. Yes, we've tried. Many times. I am unable to install a > newer version of wine than whatever came with the latest version of picasa > (3.0 beta) that included wine. Yes, we've tried. > > Can I install the latest version of Picasa for windows with the older > version of wine without losing anything? I know the last time I upgraded > Picasa I had to completely redo whatever the 'folder manager' is supposed to > do, which was a task I do NOT want to do again. > > And is there any REAL benefit in speed, capability, etc. with the newer > version(s)? I don't care about more extensive 'sharing' capabilities, but > being able to do perspective correction would be really nice.... > > -- > Cheers, Bev > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > "We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, > it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet." -- Anon. > > > -- > 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]<google-labs-picasa-for-linux%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-picasa-for-linux?hl=en. > > -- -- 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.
