fastiv

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.

Its development status can be summarized as ‘beta’. E.g., colour management is partial, and certain GIFs animate wrong.

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: lcms2, LibRaw, librsvg-2.0, xcursor, libwebp, libheif, libtiff, gdk-pixbuf-2.0, ExifTool

$ 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:

fiv-browser { -FivBrowser-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.