Picasa for Linux

[James Hall]

On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 12:43 +0200, Marco Cabizza wrote:
> Hope we don't really want that ugly wine hack in Ubuntu/Debian or
> whatever :)

The average Joe doesn't care if it's using GTK, QT or Wine API's. Wine
should be a first class citizen on Ubuntu. Sure, it looks a bit out of
place and some discredit it because it's "emulation" but the Windows API
is used in the vast majority of commercial desktop software and if we
can't make them integrate with our desktop like native GTK/QT apps then
we are missing out on a huge opportunity. 

In an "ideal world" we'd want all our apps written using GTK or QT for
KDE folk but developers with an existing Windows application aren't
going to do that - 'emulation' is the best chance we have at getting
mainstream acceptance for Linux. I know many people who will prefer a
GTK-based app over a QT equivalent simply because it uses GTK, not on
features. You'll find my girlfriend couldn't give two monkeys and use
the one she prefers based on features and ease of use.

In conclusion - we *have* to make Wine-based ports as easy as possible
to install and configure since they are valuable tools that Windows-folk
are already familiar with. Why should people care how it was written or
what libraries and API's it uses?

-- James