Picasa 3.0 for Linux (beta)

Picasa 3.0 for Linux (beta)

Instructions:

Picasa is free photo software from Google. This version is Linux compatible. Picasa won’t delete your pictures or put them online without your permission.

This is a preview of the upcoming release of Picasa 3 for Linux. We encourage you to try out this beta release and provide feedback to help us improve our product.

Please see http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/testrepo.html for information on using Google’s Linux Software Testing Repository to install Picasa 3 for Linux.

If you don’t want to use the repositories, or don’t have a compatible package manager, you may also download the packages directly from the following URLs:

• rpm, for Red Hat/Fedora/Suse/Mandriva i386 or x86_64:
  http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/testing/i386/picasa-3.0-current.i386.rpm
• deb, for Debian/Ubuntu i386:
  http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/pool/non-free/p/picasa/picasa_3.0-current_i386.deb
• deb, for Debian/Ubuntu amd64:
  http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/pool/non-free/p/picasa/picasa_3.0-current_amd64.deb

All downloads are approximately 30 MB: Picasa software (13 MB), Wine (11 MB) and Gecko engine (6 MB).

New Features:

• Improved integration with Picasa Web Albums
  You can sync your Picasa 3 and Web Albums edits, change your online album settings from Picasa, and delete online albums from Picasa.
• Better uploading with the upload Drop-box and bandwidth throttling.
• New Retouch tool to remove unsightly blemishes and improve photo quality.
• Improved Collage tool lets you have total artistic control over your collage content and layout.
• Auto red-eye: same results, less work for you.
• Easily add text or watermarks to your photos.

Full list of new features.

Linux specific changes / improvements:

• User data are now stored in ~/.google/picasa/.
• Camera/media detection integrated with Gnome/KDE.
• Mozilla/Firefox browser integration done via a plugin.
• picasa:// urls work in Firefox 3.
• Downloading albums from Picasa Web Albums launches faster.
• Better Xinerama support.

Known Issues:

• This is an English-only release.
• This version of Picasa for Linux does not support movie files.
• Picasa notices don’t stay on a given desktop. Picasa pops up notices to let you know it’s found new photos or has added photos to its library. These notices come on the current desktop; some users would rather they stayed on the same desktop that Picasa itself was on.
• Several BlogThis! features do not work properly with Picasa’s embedded browser window, such as spell check and new account URL tester.
• Music playback during slideshow doesn’t work.
• If you have an NFS mounted home directory, the performance may be poor. Picasa relies heavily on a lot of files in the ~/.picasa directory, and if the home directory is slow, then Picasa will be slow. You can work around this by making a directory in /var/opt/picasa/$USERNAME/ that corresponds to your username. You have to have full rights to that directory.
• A few print providers (namely Photobox) do not work correctly.
• Timeline do not show full-screen images when running on a 24-bit depth X server, even if that setting is checked in the Options dialog.
• No camera/media detection on non Gnome/KDE systems.
• Picasa Menu items end up in “Lost and Found” on KDE 4.
• picasa:// urls do not work in Firefox 3 if Gconf is not installed.
• Search text box background color is wrong.
• Picasa splash screen not centered on some window managers.

• rpm, for Red Hat/Fedora/Suse/Mandriva i386 or x86_64:
  http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/testing/i386/picasa-3.0-current.i386.rpm
• deb, for Debian/Ubuntu i386:
  http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/pool/non-free/p/picasa/picasa_3.0-current_i386.deb
• deb, for Debian/Ubuntu amd64:
  http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/pool/non-free/p/picasa/picasa_3.0-current_amd64.deb

All downloads are approximately 30 MB: Picasa software (13 MB), Wine (11 MB) and Gecko engine (6 MB).

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