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fastiv
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'fastiv' is a fast image viewer, supporting BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, and optionally
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RAW pictures.
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It is meant to be a viable replacement for Eye of GNOME, which is slow, likes
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to break on huge pictures, and its underlying gdk-pixbuf can only be made to use
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the broken libopenraw
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https://mail.gnome.org/archives/eog-list/2016-January/msg00004.html[as of now].
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Further development
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-------------------
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Urgent blockers for the first stable version:
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- directory browsing
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- implement zoom and scrolling
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High priority:
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- some level of asynchronous loading and preloading,
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which becomes a difficult problem with network mounts,
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confusingly acting as fast devices
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- write a replacement for GNOME's Nautilus in grid mode:
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read-only, with focus on staggered previews and minimising wasted space
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Low priority:
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- display 16-bit pictures smoothly, using the 30-bit depth under X.org
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- make RAW as fast as it can possibly be
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- load everything that resembles a picture, potentially even play video
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- port to something less hostile than the current GNOME stack, such as SDL,
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although it may involve a lot of reimplemented code,
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or result in reduced functionality
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Non-goals:
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- fancy UI, focus solely on speed of use
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- memory efficiency, though preloading can cause some pressure
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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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Build dependencies: Meson, pkg-config +
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Runtime dependencies: gtk+-3.0, libturbojpeg, LibRaw (optional)
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$ git clone --recursive https://git.janouch.name/p/fastiv.git
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$ meson builddir
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$ cd builddir
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$ meson compile
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To install the application, you can do:
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# meson install
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Contributing and Support
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Use https://git.janouch.name/p/fastiv 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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