fastiv

fastiv is a fast image viewer, supporting BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, and optionally RAW pictures.

It is meant to be a viable replacement for Eye of GNOME, which is slow, likes to break on huge pictures, and its underlying gdk-pixbuf can only be made to use the broken libopenraw as of now.

Further development

Urgent blockers for the first stable version:

• directory browsing

• implement zoom and scrolling

High priority:

• some level of asynchronous loading and preloading, which becomes a difficult problem with network mounts, confusingly acting as fast devices

• write a replacement for GNOME’s Nautilus in grid mode: read-only, with focus on staggered previews and minimising wasted space

Low priority:

• display 16-bit pictures smoothly, using the 30-bit depth under X.org

• make RAW as fast as it can possibly be

• load everything that resembles a picture, potentially even play video

• port to something less hostile than the current GNOME stack, such as SDL, although it may involve a lot of reimplemented code, or result in reduced functionality

Non-goals:

• fancy UI, focus solely on speed of use

• memory efficiency, though preloading can cause some pressure

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, libturbojpeg, LibRaw (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.