Things I would love to have in a linux photo management app. (Yeah I know it can be run under wine, but I really would rather run a native program).
#LIGHTZONE ZONE MAPPER VS RELIGHT SOFTWARE#
DigiKam is OK, but not great.ĭoes anyone else agree that great photo management software for linux does not exist? Something along the lines of google picasa would be excellent. Read the Picasa Google group and you would have already answered your question here. It's closed and Google isn't interested in a native port at this time. You're not going to get a native Picasa anytime soon if ever. Some of them are close, but for people who want to really work with their photos, they are all lacking in many ways. F-Spot, Picasa for linux, digiKam, Gwenview, imgSeek, GQview, and everything else I can find is simply not up to par. I just wish linux had a professional photo organization application, and I would even pay for one if it was good. What linux user would want to use wine to run a program when a native version is available, even if it's built right into the binary? Wine is great for what it is, but bottom line, it's still an indirect path to the end.
On the other hand, if they would code it natively or use a cross platform development scheme, they wouldn't be stuck with having to hand tweak their code to get it to work on linux. They are forced to develop the windows app, and then make a bunch of kludged edits to make sure that it will run correctly under wine.
#LIGHTZONE ZONE MAPPER VS RELIGHT UPDATE#
For example, the linux version is way behind the windows version in terms of functionality, and who knows when they will actually update it. My problem with the wine version of picasa is that they are stuck in a foreign framework. If google created a native version of picasa I would be thrilled, even if it wasn't open source. The open source part is the least of my concerns. And picasa for all intents and purposes is native in its current form. Also, never in your post did you specify you needed an open source app, just native. To be fair, while it runs "under wine", you needn't have wine installed, it uses wine code to run its own binary.
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