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Porting of Ranker to GTK/GTKmm4 has been frozen.

Why is that?
The differences between GTK3 and GTK4 are significant, resulting in porting being a considerable effort, much bigger than anticipated. What is more, most of the user interface is created with the Glade interface designer. Unfortunately, Glade has no support for GTK4. There is no easy way of migrating the user interface definitions from GTK3 to GTK4. ... read more

The gtkmm4 package has been released for MSYS2. Porting Ranker to GTK 4 will begin soon. The new port will not only just switch to new version of GTK, but will also use the brand-new video playback capabilities of the new GTK, removing dependencies on SDL2 and VLC in the process. Using the video playback capabilities will be an interesting challenge which I am looking forward to.

This release is a fully functional build based on the GTK 3 library for early adopters.
The software just works as before, but is completely built against GTK 3 libraries.

The GTK+ 2.24 library release series is approaching its deprecation and digital oblivion. To keep this project alive, it will be ported to GTK 3. Porting will be done in two phases

• Phase 1 - Fully functional build. Ranker will be ported to GTK 3, with all functions available, but with partial usage of deprecated widgets. Binaries for Windows will be released when ready.
• Phase 2 - Migration of all deprecated widgets to their modern counterparts. This will include elimination of deprecated library calls. The goal is a clean UI and clean build.

GTK 3 has much better support for Microsoft Windows and will be around for some time. This will allow a meaningful continuation of the project, even in the dawn of GTK 4. The gap between GTK 2 and 4 would be too big. Migration to GTK3 will not be without sacrifices though. Button icons and menu icons are gone. This is within the UI guidelines anyway.... read more

Ranker 1.0.5 is a maintenance release that mostly brings multi-monitor support and toleration

• Window placement and sizing tolerates multi-monitor setup
• Pairwise ranking doesn't crash with multi-monitor setup
• Pairwise ranking is now using SDL 2.0 library instead SDL 1.2 and works in a "fullscreen window" mode
• Ranker can be built with most recent MSYS2 build tools and libraries
• UI is loaded with GtkBuilder instead of Glade
• Minor project website and documentation updates

I have released 1.0.4. This version is compilable with latest gcc against latest GTK+ 2 and GTKmm 2 libraries. A package with self-contained windows binaries is available too. And that's it.

This project hasn't seen updates for more than 6 years.
I have no motivation to continue. For any meaningful continuation, the project would have to be re-architected and re-designed.

The main reason is poor architecture from the beginning caused by my lack of experience with software development at the time. With minor changes, ranker is still compilable and usable under MSYS2/GTKmm 2.

Whoever would like to continue, please send me a message through SF or directly to zylon@post.cz

After years of silence, new release of Ranker is here.

Apart from small improvements and bug fixes, this small release comes with support for pairwise ranking of videos.

Support for the videos brings two additional dependencies: SDL 1.2 and VLC libraires.

A new release1.0.3 is coming soon. Apart from bug fixes and minor improvements, it will come with support for pairwise ranking of videos.

- Each image now has unique id, so it can be tracked after DnD
- Single views now work correctly when the same image is
opened multiple times
- Minor improvements of configure.ac

Autotools-based source code distribution. I18n support. Bugfixes. Source code refactored a bit.

Initial release available