On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 16:26 -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote: > Yes, that's right. A native version of Google Earth (not wine) has been > released. It looks like it's running under wine but if you examine the > install directory there are only .so files and no trace of wine there.
Just to get Stuart going, it looks like Google did it all in Qt. That made it quite easy to port to all three platforms. Blessed C++! ;) Google Earth has always been Qt, though, so it's not like a rewrite or anything. Picasa, on the other hand, cannot be ported this way. Let's just hope that google also ports SketchUp, a project few people know about. http://sketchup.google.com/ > > And the good news is that it works very well. I wish it was open > source, but in the meantime I am excited to have it. NASA's open source > world winds competitor will be released on linux soon, so we'll have > good competition. > > Michael > > > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
