http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3351
Summary: Picasa sometimes slow and jerky while moving through images in edit window Product: Wine Version: 20050830 Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wine-misc AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: dank@kegel.com
I'm running 20050830 compiled from the tarball, with a couple patches from Mike M. (http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2005-September/020605.html, http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2005-September/040024.html)
This is an intermittant interactivity problem.
If you run Picasa, and doubleclick on an image, you should be able to quickly move back and forth through the list of images in the same directory, and usually, you can. However, sometimes it is very slow and jerky. For several seconds at a time, while you're trying to move, you'll be stuck on one image while the little message "Refining..." is diplayed in the center of the screen. Scroll events stack up during this time, and it can take five or ten seconds for picasa to finish handling them once it unblocks.
Maybe this is more likely while Picasa is scanning the hard drive for images. It seems to improve with time. Removing the wine directory and reinstalling picasa (to force the scan again) might help reproduce if you've had picasa installed for a long time and can't see this problem.
(A little background: When you start Picasa, it displays "the Library", which has two panes: on the left, a list of directories; on the right, a list of images in the selected directory. When you doubleclick on one of the images in the right hand pane, it takes you to an edit screen, again with two panes: on the left, a list of actions you could take, and on the right, a large view of the single image. At the top of the edit screen is a navigation widget that shows your position in the list of images in this directory. This is the screen that showed the jerkiness.)