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'fastiv' is a fast image viewer, supporting BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, and optionally
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RAW pictures.
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It is meant to be a viable replacement for Eye of GNOME, which is slow and likes
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to break on huge pictures.  Memory efficiency is specifically a non-goal.
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It is meant to be a viable replacement for Eye of GNOME, which is slow, likes
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to break on huge pictures, and its underlying gdk-pixbuf can only be made to use
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the broken libopenraw
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https://mail.gnome.org/archives/eog-list/2016-January/msg00004.html[as of now].
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Further development
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Urgent blockers for the first stable version:
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 - directory browsing
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 - implement zoom and scrolling
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High priority:
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 - some level of asynchronous loading and preloading,
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   which becomes a difficult problem with network mounts,
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   confusingly acting as fast devices
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 - write a replacement for GNOME's Nautilus in grid mode:
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   read-only, with focus on staggered previews and minimising wasted space
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Low priority:
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 - display 16-bit pictures smoothly, using the 30-bit depth under X.org
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 - make RAW as fast as it can possibly be
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 - load everything that resembles a picture, potentially even play video
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Non-goals:
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 - fancy UI, focus solely on speed of use
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 - memory efficiency, though preloading can cause some pressure
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Packages
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