Monitor problem

[ishwor]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:42:03 pm 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).
Typo - The other way round ;)
i.e. - 
"the software that run using wine may not be as fast as the Microsoft windows 
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)."

cheers