Howdy, On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 12:53 -0500, Patrick W. Barnes wrote: > 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. Also, keep in mind, that this is beta software. > -- > Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes taharka Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
