Monitor problem

[The Wassermans]

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