fastiv ====== 'fastiv' is a fast image viewer, supporting BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, and optionally RAW pictures. 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 - memory efficiency, though preloading can cause some pressure Packages -------- Regular releases are sporadic. git master should be stable enough. You can get a package with the latest development version from Archlinux's AUR. Building and Running -------------------- Build dependencies: Meson, pkg-config + Runtime dependencies: gtk+-3.0, libturbojpeg, LibRaw (optional), shared-mime-info $ git clone --recursive https://git.janouch.name/p/fastiv.git $ meson builddir $ cd builddir $ meson compile To install the application, you can do: # meson install Contributing and Support ------------------------ Use https://git.janouch.name/p/fastiv 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.