Re: Picasa on FC4 seems good

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On Monday 29 May 2006 09:32, wwp <subscript@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 May 2006 12:33:18 +0100 "Robert Spanton" <rspanton@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > > > I am running up-to-date FC4.  Picasa is working quite well.  Still
> > > > indexing.  Will play with it more when it's done.  Has anyone tried
> > > > it on FC5?  Reviews?
> >
> > I ran it on FC5, and it worked pretty well. Unfortunately, when I went
> > into full screen mode, something went wrong and X hung. Killing picasa
> > didn't make any difference and I had to restart X.
> >
> > I much prefer f-spot.
>
> Ah also, when in slide show mode, pictures are ugly (obviously badly
> resized+blur effect or a very bad algo), until I click to get the slide
> show bar, then the picture shows nice (as expected). Back to slide show
> running mode and pictures are horrible.
>

Most of the problems you will see are the result of the program using Wine to 
achieve Linux compatibility.  It isn't running natively, and it certainly 
isn't built against the same toolkits as other Fedora Core packages.  You are 
more likely to see glitches and performance degradation than you would be 
with native tools.

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