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This is a rather big update. Still many of the main features are missing, so this is still pre-alpha. However, this is what's new:

- PNG support
- You can zoom pictures using keys 1..0 (bigger) and Ctrl+1..0 (smaller)
Gettext library support - comes with German translation
- Fully customizable. After first run a .spv file will be created, which you can use to do a lot of configuration. Everything can also be configured using the command line (type "spv --help" for the most important options)
- A lot of bugfixes and optimizations, of course... read more

I just noticed that the E-Mail account dev@saschamueller.com doesn't work. This is fixed now.

Finally, the third pre-alpha is ready for download.

It uses the most current autotools version, is extremely portable and the code should be quite clean and mostly bug-free.

If no JPEG library is found on your system, the program will be compiled without JPEG support, so it won't be able to do a lot of things. Besides that there have been a lot of improvements, but it still doesn't do a lot useful things.

Version 0.0.2 is the first version that can do some useful things:

Browser module:
You can browse through your directories, select files and by pressing Enter you can change to the viewer that will display the currently selected file.

Viewer module:
Press Enter to return to the browser, or navigate through the current directory
using the PgUp, PgDown, Home and End key.
Only JPEG files are supported yet.... read more

This is funny: I just got spv-0.0.2 ready for download. Then I decided to clean up my ~/dev directory by executing 'rm -f spv*'. Well, of course the directory 'spv.archive' was deleted, too, so I lost all spv stuff ... the work of nearly a month.

No, wait ... on a second thought this isn't funny at all ... Gotta do it all again new

I just uploaded the first file - spv-0.1.1.tar.gz

This is an alpha alpha alpha version that cannot do anything useful at all.

You can either run "spv" to open a window that will sometime become the browser window, or you can run "spv test" to open a window that will sometime become the viewer window with a test image.

You can also look through the source code and see how incredibly ... ehm ... incredible it is, I guess.