From: PCMan <pcm...@gm...> - 2009-08-12 11:28:11
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As many people know, there is a new good image view named viewnior. http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/Viewnior After testing I think it's fairly good. Besides, the base of viewnior is this lib, GtkImageView. http://trac.bjourne.webfactional.com/ After reading the webpages, I think this might be the future of gpicview. Any thoughts? |
From: Christoph W. <chr...@go...> - 2009-08-13 12:00:41
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Am Mittwoch, den 12.08.2009, 19:28 +0800 schrieb PCMan: > > After reading the webpages, I think this might be the future of gpicview. > Any thoughts? viewnior is indeed a good program (I recently packaged it for Fedora) and could become the default image viewer of LXDE. I like the clean interface. It follows GNOME's HIG and fits well to the rest of the LXDE desktop. gpicview on the other hand looks more like a rip-off of the image viewer of Windows XP/Vista. But before viewnior can replace gpicview it must be feature compatible. Currently gpicview has a lot of features that viewnior lacks, most notably lossless rotation of images, support for animated GIFs. basic EXIF support etc. Maybe we can join the viewnior development to speed it up? Has anybody contacted the vievnior developer and asked for his plans? Regards, Christoph P.S.: One potential potential problem with viewnior: It supports setting the wallpaper in GNOME. So if a distro builds viewnior with GNOME support, we have a GConf dependency in LXDE. :( |
From: Martin B. / b. <br...@bs...> - 2009-08-13 12:28:48
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Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 12.08.2009, 19:28 +0800 schrieb PCMan: >> After reading the webpages, I think this might be the future of gpicview. >> Any thoughts? > > viewnior is indeed a good program (I recently packaged it for Fedora) > and could become the default image viewer of LXDE. I like the clean > interface. It follows GNOME's HIG and fits well to the rest of the LXDE > desktop. gpicview on the other hand looks more like a rip-off of the > image viewer of Windows XP/Vista. Just installed viewnior_0.6-1~ppa2~jaunty1_amd64.deb and gave it a head to head swing with gpicview (0.2.1). Image viewing is not what I spend most of my days doing so I might not appreciate the goodies in there but I like the UI of gpicview better. With the discussions we had about doing changes to make gpicview even more none-intrusive I have a hard time seeing a switch to an application that adds more clutter to the UI. What extra brings the menu bar for me? - can I hide it? Why do I need those big icons in the toolbar? - placing the toolbar at the top rather than the bottom I tend to like though. A legacy from the Windows father in GPicView I guess. > But before viewnior can replace gpicview it must be feature compatible. > Currently gpicview has a lot of features that viewnior lacks, most > notably lossless rotation of images, support for animated GIFs. basic > EXIF support etc. Maybe we can join the viewnior development to speed it > up? Has anybody contacted the vievnior developer and asked for his > plans? I would rather want to see a merge than a discontinued gpicview for now. > P.S.: One potential potential problem with viewnior: It supports setting > the wallpaper in GNOME. So if a distro builds viewnior with GNOME > support, we have a GConf dependency in LXDE. :( And that is just out of the question. just my €0.02 -- brother |