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diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc index 1ac5e02..5340a7a 100644 --- a/README.adoc +++ b/README.adoc @@ -2,41 +2,13 @@ fastiv ====== 'fastiv' is a fast image viewer, supporting BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, and optionally -RAW pictures. +RAW pictures. Currently, it's not particularly usable. -It is meant to be a viable replacement for Eye of GNOME, which is slow, likes -to break on huge pictures, and its underlying gdk-pixbuf can only be made to use -the broken libopenraw -https://mail.gnome.org/archives/eog-list/2016-January/msg00004.html[as of now]. - -Further development -------------------- -Urgent blockers for the first stable version: - - - directory browsing - - implement zoom and scrolling - -High priority: - - - some level of asynchronous loading and preloading, - which becomes a difficult problem with network mounts, - confusingly acting as fast devices - - write a replacement for GNOME's Nautilus in grid mode: - read-only, with focus on staggered previews and minimising wasted space - -Low priority: - - - display 16-bit pictures smoothly, using the 30-bit depth under X.org - - make RAW as fast as it can possibly be - - load everything that resembles a picture, potentially even play video - - port to something less hostile than the current GNOME stack, such as SDL, - although it may involve a lot of reimplemented code, - or result in reduced functionality - -Non-goals: - - - fancy UI, focus solely on speed of use +Non-goals +--------- + - fancy UI--the focus is on speed of use first, colour accuracy second - memory efficiency, though preloading can cause some pressure + - portability to non-UNIXy systems Packages -------- @@ -46,8 +18,8 @@ a package with the latest development version from Archlinux's AUR. Building and Running -------------------- Build dependencies: Meson, pkg-config + -Runtime dependencies: gtk+-3.0, libpng > 1.5.4, libturbojpeg, LibRaw (optional), -shared-mime-info +Runtime dependencies: gtk+-3.0, shared-mime-info, libpng>=1.5.4, libturbojpeg, +LibRaw (optional) $ git clone --recursive https://git.janouch.name/p/fastiv.git $ meson builddir |