Přemysl Eric Janouch
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Now binaries can be (cross-)built using GCC for 32- and 64-bit Windows. Additional improvements: - Within MSYS2, try to install the required dependencies automatically. - Within MSYS2, fix passing libdir paths to pkg-config. - Prune documentation from extracted package files, addressing the incredible slowness of Windows filesystem operations. - Fix the script name in README.adoc instructions.
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fiv
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===
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'fiv' is a slightly unconventional, general-purpose image browser and viewer
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for Linux and Windows (macOS still has major issues).
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image::docs/fiv.webp["Screenshot of both the browser and the viewer"]
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Features
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--------
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- Uses a compact thumbnail view, helping you browse collections comfortably.
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- Supports BMP, (A)PNG, GIF, TGA, JPEG, WebP directly, plus optionally raw
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photos, HEIC, AVIF, SVG, X11 cursors and TIFF, or whatever your gdk-pixbuf
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modules manage to load.
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- Employs high-performance file format libraries: Wuffs and libjpeg-turbo.
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- Makes use of 30-bit X.org visuals, whenever it's possible and appropriate.
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- Has a notion of pages, and tries to load all included content within files.
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- Can keep the zoom and position when browsing, to help with comparing
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zoomed-in images.
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Explicit non-goals
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------------------
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- Editing--that's what _editors_ are for, be it GIMP or Rawtherapee;
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nothing beyond the most basic of adjustments is desired.
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- Following the latest GNOME HIG to the letter--header bars are deliberately
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avoided, for their general user hostility.
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- Memory efficiency is secondary to both performance and development effort.
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Aspirations
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-----------
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Show colours as accurately as hardware allows. Open everything. Be fast.
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Not necessarily in this order.
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Packages
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--------
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Regular releases are sporadic. git master should be stable enough. You can get
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a package with the latest development version from Archlinux's AUR.
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Building and Running
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--------------------
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Build-only dependencies:
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Meson, pkg-config, asciidoctor or asciidoc (recommended but optional) +
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Runtime dependencies: gtk+-3.0, glib>=2.64, pixman-1, shared-mime-info,
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libturbojpeg, libwebp, librsvg-2.0 (for icons) +
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Optional dependencies: lcms2, Little CMS fast float plugin,
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LibRaw, librsvg-2.0, xcursor, libheif, libtiff, ExifTool,
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resvg (unstable API, needs to be requested explicitly) +
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Runtime dependencies for reverse image search:
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xdg-utils, cURL, jq
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$ git clone --recursive https://git.janouch.name/p/fiv.git
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$ meson setup builddir
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$ cd builddir
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$ meson compile
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Considering the vast amount of dynamically-linked dependencies, do not attempt
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direct installations via `ninja install`. To test the program:
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$ meson devenv fiv
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The lossless JPEG cropper and reverse image search are intended to be invoked
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from a context menu.
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Windows
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~~~~~~~
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'fiv' can be cross-compiled for Windows, provided that you install a bunch of
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dependencies listed at the beginning of 'msys2-configure.sh',
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plus rsvg-convert from librsvg2, and icotool from icoutils.
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Beware that the build will take up about a gigabyte of disk space.
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$ sh -e msys2-configure.sh builddir
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$ meson install -C builddir
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If everything succeeds, you will find a portable build of the application
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in the 'builddir/package' subdirectory. No installer is provided yet.
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Faster colour management
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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To get the Little CMS fast float plugin, you'll have to enter MSYS2 and
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https://www.msys2.org/wiki/Creating-Packages/#re-building-a-package[rebuild]
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_mingw-w64-lcms2_ with the following change:
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sed -i 's/meson setup /&-Dfastfloat=true /' PKGCONFIG
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Documentation
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-------------
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For information concerning usage, refer to link:docs/fiv.html[the user guide],
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which can be invoked from within the program by pressing F1.
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Contributing and Support
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------------------------
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Use https://git.janouch.name/p/fiv to report any bugs, request features,
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or submit pull requests. `git send-email` is tolerated. If you want to discuss
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the project, feel free to join me at ircs://irc.janouch.name, channel #dev.
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Bitcoin donations are accepted at: 12r5uEWEgcHC46xd64tt3hHt9EUvYYDHe9
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License
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-------
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This software is released under the terms of the 0BSD license, the text of which
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is included within the package along with the list of authors.
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