fiv === 'fiv' is a slightly unconventional, general-purpose image browser and viewer for Linux and Windows (macOS still has major issues). image::docs/fiv.webp["Screenshot of both the browser and the viewer"] See https://p.janouch.name/text/replacing-eog-and-nautilus.html[the accompanying article] for some context. Features -------- - Uses a compact thumbnail view, helping you browse collections comfortably. - Supports BMP, (A)PNG, GIF, TGA, JPEG, WebP directly, plus optionally raw photos, HEIC, AVIF, SVG, X11 cursors and TIFF, or whatever your gdk-pixbuf modules manage to load. - Employs high-performance file format libraries: Wuffs and libjpeg-turbo. - Makes use of 30-bit X.org visuals, whenever it's possible and appropriate. - Has a notion of pages, and tries to load all included content within files. - Can keep the zoom and position when browsing, to help with comparing zoomed-in images. Explicit non-goals ------------------ - Editing--that's what _editors_ are for, be it GIMP or Rawtherapee; nothing beyond the most basic of adjustments is desired. - Following the latest GNOME HIG to the letter--header bars are deliberately avoided, for their general user hostility. - Memory efficiency is secondary to both performance and development effort. Aspirations ----------- Show colours as accurately as hardware allows. Open everything. Be fast. Not necessarily in this order. Packages -------- Regular releases are sporadic. git master should be stable enough. You can get a package with the latest development version using Arch Linux's https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fiv-git[AUR], or as a https://git.janouch.name/p/nixexprs[Nix derivation]. Building and Running -------------------- Build-only dependencies: Meson, pkg-config, asciidoctor or asciidoc (recommended but optional) + Runtime dependencies: gtk+-3.0, glib>=2.64, pixman-1, shared-mime-info, libturbojpeg, libwebp, librsvg-2.0 (for icons) + Optional dependencies: lcms2, Little CMS fast float plugin, LibRaw, librsvg-2.0, xcursor, libheif, libtiff, ExifTool, resvg (unstable API, needs to be requested explicitly) + Runtime dependencies for reverse image search: xdg-utils, cURL, jq $ git clone --recursive https://git.janouch.name/p/fiv.git $ cd fiv $ meson setup builddir $ cd builddir $ meson compile $ meson devenv fiv The lossless JPEG cropper and reverse image search are intended to be invoked from a file manager context menu. For proper integration, you will need to install the application. On Debian, you can get a quick and dirty installation package for testing purposes using: $ meson compile deb # dpkg -i fiv-*.deb Windows ~~~~~~~ 'fiv' can be cross-compiled for Windows, provided that you install a bunch of dependencies listed at the beginning of 'msys2-configure.sh', plus rsvg-convert from librsvg2, icotool from icoutils, and msitools ≥ 0.102. Beware that the build will take up about a gigabyte of disk space. $ sh -e msys2-configure.sh builddir $ meson compile package -C builddir If everything succeeds, you will find a portable build of the application in the 'builddir/package' subdirectory, and a very basic MSI installation package in 'builddir'. Faster colour management ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ To get the Little CMS fast float plugin, you'll have to enter MSYS2 and https://www.msys2.org/wiki/Creating-Packages/#re-building-a-package[rebuild] _mingw-w64-lcms2_ with the following change: sed -i 's/meson setup /&-Dfastfloat=true /' PKGCONFIG Documentation ------------- For information concerning usage, refer to link:docs/fiv.html[the user guide], which can be invoked from within the program by pressing F1. Contributing and Support ------------------------ Use https://git.janouch.name/p/fiv to report any bugs, request features, or submit pull requests. `git send-email` is tolerated. If you want to discuss the project, feel free to join me at ircs://irc.janouch.name, channel #dev. Bitcoin donations are accepted at: 12r5uEWEgcHC46xd64tt3hHt9EUvYYDHe9 License ------- This software is released under the terms of the 0BSD license, the text of which is included within the package along with the list of authors.