Daily Tech (as well as many others) are reporting now that Portions of Google Pack Coming to Linux. Google has apparently given the Codeweavers team the job of porting the app to run on Linux. This is a good move for Linux on the desktop, as IMHO, Picasa is a superb piece of photo management software.
However, for KDE users, you already have something just as good, and it’s a native KDE app. digiKam is the KDE Photo Management application, which may very well have been modeled after Google’s Picasa. Features include tagging, web-based album generation, camera-interfacing, watched folders, easy red-eye correction, cropping, and the list goes on and on and on. If you’re running KDE, check it out.
[...] I mentioned a few months ago that Google was supposedly working on releasing Picasa for Linux. Well, they were, and they did. I don’t want to get labeled a Linux-elistist for the comment I’m about to make, but I’ll say it anyway. I was initially excited about it, but now I’m slightly hesitant to install it, simply because its not Open Source. In that previous post, I noted that digiKam is my photo app of choice, and I think I’m going to keep it that way, at least for now. « DailyTech – Canon to Abandon Its Film Camera Development [...]