README.adoc

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 fiv
 ===
 
-'fiv' is a slightly unconventional, general-purpose image browser and viewer.
+'fiv' is an image browser and viewer, supporting BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, WebP
+directly, plus optionally raw photos, HEIC, AVIF, SVG, X11 cursors and TIFF,
+or whatever gdk-pixbuf loads.
+
+Its development status can be summarized as '`beta`'.
+E.g., certain GIFs animate wrong.
 
 image::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, JPEG, WebP directly, plus optionally raw photos,
-   HEIC, AVIF, SVG, X11 cursors and TIFF, or whatever gdk-pixbuf loads.
- - 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.
-
-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.
- - Portability to non-UNIXy systems, although patches are welcome.
- - Memory efficiency is secondary to both performance and development time.
-
-Aspirations
------------
-Show colours as accurately as hardware allows.  Open everything.  Be fast.
-Not necessarily in this order.
+Non-goals
+---------
+ - fancy UI--the focus is on speed of use first, colour accuracy second
+ - editing--that's what _editors_ are for, be it GIMP or Rawtherapee;
+   nothing beyond the most basic of adjustments is desired
+ - memory efficiency, though preloading can cause some pressure
+ - portability to non-UNIXy systems
 
 Packages
 --------
@@ -46,12 +36,9 @@ gdk-pixbuf-2.0, ExifTool
  $ cd builddir
  $ meson compile
 
-Considering the vast amount of dynamically-linked dependencies, do not attempt
-direct installations.  To test the program, help it find its custom thumbnailer:
+To install the application, you can do:
 
- $ PATH=$(pwd):$PATH ./fiv
-
-Pressing F1 will give you a convenient list of keyboard shortcuts.
+ # meson install
 
 Configuration
 -------------
@@ -61,7 +48,7 @@ _~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css_:
 
  fiv-browser { -FivBrowser-spacing: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; margin: 0; }
 
-Should you want to experiment, you will find the GTK+ inspector very helpful.
+The GTK+ inspector will be very helpful, should you want to experiment.
 
 Contributing and Support
 ------------------------

fiv-thumbnail.c

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 //
 // fiv-thumbnail.c: thumbnail management
 //
-// Copyright (c) 2021 - 2022, Přemysl Eric Janouch <p@janouch.name>
+// Copyright (c) 2021, Přemysl Eric Janouch <p@janouch.name>
 //
 // Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
 // purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.

fiv-thumbnail.h

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 //
 // fiv-thumbnail.h: thumbnail management
 //
-// Copyright (c) 2021 - 2022, Přemysl Eric Janouch <p@janouch.name>
+// Copyright (c) 2021, Přemysl Eric Janouch <p@janouch.name>
 //
 // Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
 // purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.

fiv-view.c

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 //
 // fiv-view.c: image viewing widget
 //
-// Copyright (c) 2021 - 2022, Přemysl Eric Janouch <p@janouch.name>
+// Copyright (c) 2021, Přemysl Eric Janouch <p@janouch.name>
 //
 // Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
 // purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.

fiv-view.h

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 //
 // fiv-view.h: image viewing widget
 //
-// Copyright (c) 2021 - 2022, Přemysl Eric Janouch <p@janouch.name>
+// Copyright (c) 2021, Přemysl Eric Janouch <p@janouch.name>
 //
 // Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
 // purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.