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fastiv
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'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, libpng > 1.5.4, 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.
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