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Use spng to load thumbnails
Speed matters here, and this makes us about 20 percent faster
at loading large directories.

Moreover, libpng's PNG_ALPHA_BROKEN is indeed broken.

Thumbnails have a fairly fixed format, so there are very few practical
corner cases that could have been missed.
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fastiv

fastiv is a fast image viewer, supporting BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, and optionally RAW and SVG pictures, or whatever gdk-pixbuf loads. Currently, its very basic.

Non-goals

  • 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

Regular releases are sporadic. git master should be stable enough. You can get a package with the latest development version from Archlinuxs AUR.

Building and Running

Build dependencies: Meson, pkg-config
Runtime dependencies: gtk+-3.0, pixman-1, shared-mime-info, spng>=0.7.0, libturbojpeg, LibRaw (optional), librsvg-2.0 (optional), gdk-pixbuf-2.0 (optional)

$ 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.