Picasa

What works

all of the main features

What does not

the features in the known bugs

: What are the known issues/bugs in Picasa for Linux?

• The system tray does not close with loss of focus. If you bring up the media detector menu, you have to either start picasa or stop the media detector to get the menu to go away.
  
• This version of Picasa for Linux does not support movie files.
• Picasa notices don't stay on a given desktop. Picasa pops up notices to let you know it's found new photos or has added photos to its library. These notices come on the current desktop; some users would rather they stayed on the same desktop that Picasa itself was on.
• Music playback during slideshow doesn't work.
• If you have a remote home directory, the performance may be poor. Picasa uses many small files in the ~/.picasa directory, and if the home directory is slow, then Picasa will be slow. Picasa will warn you if it detects your home directory is on NFS. To work around this, you can create the directory /var/opt/picasa with permissions 1777, and Picasa will use a subdirectory of that instead of ~/.picasa. See the comments in /opt/picasa/bin/wrapper.
• A few print providers (namely Photobox) do not work correctly.
• On multi-monitor displays, some interface elements do not display correctly. We currently do not have full Xinerama support.
• The the BlogThis! Blogger window, palette selector is truncated. You can’t change colors of text while posting to your blog.
• The the BlogThis! Blogger window, URL check availability feature reports 'checking availability...' forever.
• In the BlogThis! Blogger window, CreateLink and SpellCheck buttons are not functioning.
• Running Picasa with SELinux enabled may cause problems. We recommend you look for ways to temporarily disable SELinux

 http://picasa.google.com/linux/faq.html#20

Workarounds

What was not tested

almost all features were tested

Hardware tested

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