fiv === 'fiv' is a slightly unconventional, general-purpose image browser and viewer for Linux (as well as macOS and Windows, though these have known issues). image::docs/fiv.webp["Screenshot of both the browser and the viewer"] 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 from Archlinux's AUR. 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, 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 $ meson builddir $ cd builddir $ meson compile Considering the vast amount of dynamically-linked dependencies, do not attempt direct installations via `ninja install`. To test the program: $ meson devenv fiv The lossless JPEG cropper and reverse image search are intended to be invoked from a context menu. Windows ~~~~~~~ 'fiv' can be cross-compiled for Windows, provided that you install a bunch of dependencies listed at the beginning of 'msys2-cross-configure.sh', plus rsvg-convert from librsvg2, and icotool from icoutils. Beware that the build will take up about a gigabyte of disk space. $ sh -e msys2-cross-configure.sh builddir $ meson install -C builddir If everything succeeds, you will find a portable build of the application in the 'builddir/package' subdirectory. Keep your expectations low. 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.