Although it is nice to see Google making their tools available for the Linux platform, a Wine-based Picasa probably won’t impress very many Linux users. Wine isn’t known for being stable, and applications that run through Wine tend to integrate poorly with the rest of the system. Additionally, there are many well-designed native image management applications for Linux that are popular and easy to use. Native Linux applications like F-Spot, Digikam, GThumb, and Gwenview all provide better performance than Picasa on the Linux platform, and varying levels of roughly comparable functionality.
Building on top of Wine was an odd choice, really. Installing the program on my Gentoo box went fine, but the actual program will not even launch. That’s some stability right there! It looks like I will be sticking to Gwenview.. for now at least. Read the full article at Ars Technica.