Star Google Unleashes Picasa for Mac Beta
Linked by Adam S on Tue 6th Jan 2009 02:20 UTC
Google After far too long a wait, today, Google released the first beta of Picasa for Mac. Picasa is a free, powerful photo management tool that includes many photo editing operations that the Mac native iPhoto lacks. In addition, Picasa is tightly bound to Picasa Web Albums, the first 1GB of which is also free, in contrast with Apple's MobileMe, which runs $99/year.
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Hussein
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2008-11-22

Are you sure it is native? doesn't look native to me. It doesn't seem to use any of the native OS X widgets. It could be pretty much ported using Wine but with hacks to render the menu in OS X menubar.

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boudewijn Member since:
2006-03-05

It definitely doesn't look and feel native -- it looks a little bit like really bad GTK theme. The scrollbars are particularly weird. But upon looking in the bundle and noticing that it uses breakpad (which is also used in firefox, chrome and last.fm), dcraw and keystone (for the updater), I cannot discover anything. The main executable is a carbon thing, and there are a number of nib files around. There are no tell-tale signs of statically linked toolkits either, although there are many references to windows-specific code (especially registry handling) left.

Not sure what to conclude from that -- apart from that it looks and feels totally out of place and sort of handles icky.

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Adam S Member since:
2005-04-01

Native in the sense that it's a mac app, not a "crossover" like solution.

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bousozoku Member since:
2006-01-23

Are you sure it is native? doesn't look native to me. It doesn't seem to use any of the native OS X widgets. It could be pretty much ported using Wine but with hacks to render the menu in OS X menubar.


Doesn't DarWINE handle everything that WINE handles?

As soon as I saw the requirements for Intel processors, I figured they'd just did the simplest of porting to get Picasa on Macs through WINE, which is about what we also got on Linux, it seems.

This means a lot of people will have downloaded it, saw the look of it, complained about it, and removed it by now. "It's not a Macintosh application." they'll whine, because it doesn't look 100 % like iPhoto.

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