F-Spot adds export to Picasa Web Albums

F-Spot is a full-featured personal photo management application for the GNOME desktop.  It's written in C# on the Mono platform and released under the GNU GPL.

In essence its very similar to Picasa, as indeed they acknowledge on their Similar Projects page.

The latest version, f-spot 0.2.1, adds the ability to export to Picasa Web Albums (joining the existing ability to export to flickr).  As a first iteration of the function it works, but not without a few problems - it happily tries to upload say .png files to Picasa Web Albums, even though this only accepts jpeg images.

There's a bug open to cover this, where the suggested fix is to auto convert to jpeg on export.  That is what Picasa itself does, showing this dialog: