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Google launched the image viewer and organizer as a trial in 2006 Picasa for Linux using wine for its execution, that is, without carrying it natively. After the years passed and without having major achievements, he has announced that he is abandoning his development. |
Google continues to clean up "unprofitable" projects, including Picasa for Linux.
On the Google blog you can see the official announcement:
In 2006 we released a WINE-based version of Picasa as a Google Labs project. As we continue to improve Picasa, it has become difficult to maintain parity in the Linux version. So today, we are ditching Picasa for Linux. Users who have downloaded and installed previous versions of Picasa for Linux can continue to use them, although we will not release any subsequent updates.
Users who have downloaded Picasa for Linux can continue to use it without problems, but will not receive any new updates. Picasa for Linux will no longer be available for download at http://picasa.google.com/. Strangely, the application is still available in the official Google repositories for Ubuntu.
Is this something to worry about? Not really. There are many similar applications, such as Shotwell for Gnome and digiKam for KDE, that come with Picasa integration.
Are you sad that Google doesn't support Picasa anymore? Are you still using it?
I think the same, in its Google Drive platform, it has released desktop applications in all operating systems except Linux ... lately Google disappoints me.
I have the same opinion. Coincidentally today I went to see if there was anything new on the Picasa page and if Google had finally released the updated version for Linux of the Picasa and I have breakfast with this news ...
I must say that I am disappointed as Picasa was a great photo manager program, powerful and at the same time simple…. I hope that some free software developer will take the lead and develop something similar to Picasa. Cheers!
It's a shame how Google treats Linux users. And I think we are the most "followers" of their services.
I am looking forward to getting an ubuntu tablet platform
it won't be necessary, considering the great options that exist in Linux.
nerd
It is unfortunate that Google is removing support for Gnu / Linux, especially without considering that its entire technological platform is based on this great operating system.
Greetings.
I use digikam is much better, another thing that caught my attention I have linux chakra 86_64 and it is a little complicated (a lot of dependencies) to install google earth and it does not look very good but if I install it, the windows version in wine works the first time without any complication.
Pffff! I didn't use it (: P)
you could see it coming ...
good for those who liked the idea there is "picapy" I found it last week, for those who liked the interface do not get too illusions but keep the idea