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wuffs-mirror-release-c@c9d2ed7983 | ||
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fastiv-io.c | ||
fastiv-view.c | ||
fastiv-view.h | ||
fastiv.c | ||
fastiv.desktop | ||
fastiv.svg | ||
LICENSE | ||
meson_options.txt | ||
meson.build | ||
README.adoc |
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:
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directory browsing
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implement zoom and scrolling
High priority:
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some level of asynchronous loading and preloading, which becomes a difficult problem with network mounts, confusingly acting as fast devices
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write a replacement for GNOME’s Nautilus in grid mode: read-only, with focus on staggered previews and minimising wasted space
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, although it may involve a lot of reimplemented code, or result in reduced functionality
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
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.