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'fastiv' is a fast image viewer, supporting BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, and optionally
RAW pictures.
RAW pictures. Currently, it's not particularly usable.
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
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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
Non-goals
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- fancy UI--the focus is on speed of use first, colour accuracy second
- memory efficiency, though preloading can cause some pressure
- portability to non-UNIXy systems
Packages
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Building and Running
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Build dependencies: Meson, pkg-config +
Runtime dependencies: gtk+-3.0, libpng > 1.5.4, libturbojpeg, LibRaw (optional),
shared-mime-info
Runtime dependencies: gtk+-3.0, shared-mime-info, libpng>=1.5.4, libturbojpeg,
LibRaw (optional)
$ git clone --recursive https://git.janouch.name/p/fastiv.git
$ meson builddir