On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 12:42 +0930, ishwor wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:17:46 pm The Wassermans wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 21:12 +1000, Martin Visser wrote: > > > I would disagree here. For display photographic images, almost no work > > > is being done by the graphics card. Any basic card running as a frame > > [ ... ] > > > Greetings Martin, > > > > I just downloaded and tried gThumb. My first impressions are that it > > slidescreen's very much better than both Picasa & F-Spot. Just as you > > said. I will spend some time with it to see if I will adopt it in > > favour of the others. > > gwenview isn't too bad either. It's the default image viewer in Kubuntu(KDE). > > > Much of the technical discussion that has been going on is well above > > me. But I'm trying to digest some of it. Maybe one day I too will be > > able to converse so technically? > > If you want it badly enough, you shall have it badly enough. *_^ does that > make sense? Anywho, it's not that hard if you just muck around and take some > time to read man pages, technical_reviews, articles _regularly_. It's an > interesting metaverse of it's own. ;) > > > You say that Picasa for Linux is really an emulation using intergrated > > Wine? And therefore some aspects of the Windows version are > > compromised? Or were you assuming I had loaded Wine in order to run > > Picasa? Might be the same thing really? > > Picasa runs off wine (reverse acronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator). Basically > it's a software library that provides the > same/atleast_try_to_provide_the_same feature set as win32 dlls (Shared > software libraries in windows) so that windows programs that depend on win32 > library/s can instead link into wine libraries and use the dlls there like in > Microsoft windows. Hence, I believe, the software that run natively on > Microsoft windows may not be as fast as the wine equivalents because of extra > overhead underlying the function calls from wine dlls<->glibc<->kernel (I > could be dead wrong in the water here! If so, please rectify me). > > Hope that's not too hard to understand from technical perspective. > No ishwor, that was helpful. I guess I want it badly enough. But does that explain why the Picasa "Linux version" does not perform as well as the native Windows version?
I'll have a peep at gwenview and see what I think. (The way this is going, I'll soon be the technical authority on the best photo album software in the world!!) Thanks for your input Dave W -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
