fastiv is a fast image viewer, supporting BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, and optionally raw photos, HEIC, AVIF, WebP, SVG, X11 cursors and TIFF, or whatever gdk-pixbuf loads.

It still has some road to go, but it’s already become quite usable, and it has received basic polishing.

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

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

Building and Running

Build dependencies: Meson, pkg-config
Runtime dependencies: gtk+-3.0, glib>=2.64, pixman-1, shared-mime-info, spng>=0.7.0, libturbojpeg
Optional dependencies: LibRaw, librsvg-2.0, xcursor, libwebp, libheif, libtiff, gdk-pixbuf-2.0

$ 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

Configuration

The standard means to adjust the looks of the program is through GTK+ 3 CSS. As an example, to tightly pack browser items, put the following in your ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css:

fastiv-browser { -FastivBrowser-spacing: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; margin: 0; }

The GTK+ inspector will be very helpful, should you want to experiment.

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.

README.adoc Unescape Escape

fastiv