Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams (+Win32)

> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 05:03:36AM +, Ian Munsie wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 11:35 AM Roger <[1]rogerx@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Back in 2006 someone made a port of Gqview to windows. It died pretty > quickly. > >Was this because: > > > ... > >c) Windows users

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams (+Win32)

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 11:35 AM Roger wrote: > >Back in 2006 someone made a port of Gqview to windows. It died pretty > quickly. > >Was this because: > > > ... > >c) Windows users are happy with what they have, and would not bother > >with Geeqie > > My bets are on option

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams (+Win32)

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 3:26 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > While I also much prefer Geeqie to stay just a viewer, plus maybe a kind > of "shell" for editors [1], I disagree that Linux lacks lightweight > viewers. feh is currently my other favorite. > > [1] > On this topic, would

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams (+Win32)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Am Do den 29. Dez 2016 um 3:10 schrieb Josef Kufner: > Ian Zimmerman wrote, on 29.12.2016 02:26: > > On this topic, would it be interesting to create pipelines for editors, > > rather than just invoking them 1 by 1? For example, we could make

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams

On 30/12/16 00:02, Alexander Antimonov wrote: > > I take "jpeg comment" issues: #381, #286. > In the Help files - in sections Overlay Screen Display and Lua Extensions - one of the examples explains how to get the jpeg comments into the Overlay Screen Display using a Lua script. Of course you

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:27 AM, Alexander Antimonov wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:16 PM, Omari Stephens wrote: >> On 12/26/2016 10:37 PM, Alexander Antimonov wrote: >>> Is there any plan, enhancement list, users' whishlist? >> >> There

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams (+Win32)

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 4:10 AM, Josef Kufner wrote: > ... > I think there is a better way, but it would be a bit more complicated > to implement. I wonder if it is a bit too complex for a simple > use-cases. It is called "block programming". It is quite an old idea: > ... >

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams (+Win32)

Ian Zimmerman wrote, on 29.12.2016 02:26: > On this topic, would it be interesting to create pipelines for editors, > rather than just invoking them 1 by 1? For example, we could make it > possible to create a pipeline where an intricate batch imagemagick > command is called on the current image,

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams (+Win32)

On 2016-12-28 19:35, Roger wrote: > Linux is a different story, as most easy image viewers are heavy on > system resources or (more currently) depend upon clunky and heavy > resource usage Python scripting. For those of us that are a little > more computer literate, ImageMagick display does just

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams (+Win32)

>Back in 2006 someone made a port of Gqview to windows. It died pretty quickly. >Was this because: > >a) GTK's cross platform capability is a bit of a fiction > >b) Gqview/Geeqie was too complex to port successfully > >c) Windows users are happy with what they have, and would not bother >with

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams (+Win32)

On 24/12/16 15:39, Alexander Antimonov wrote: > While porting to C++1x it is good chance to make Geeqie more > cross-platform. But it seems Gtk is becoming (has become) an auxiliary > tool for the "GnomeOS". And some of the well-known projects was/is > migrating from Gtk. Maybe we should consider

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:16 PM, Omari Stephens wrote: > On 12/26/2016 10:37 PM, Alexander Antimonov wrote: >> Is there any plan, enhancement list, users' whishlist? > > There is a bug list, which does have some feature requests as well: >

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams

On 12/26/2016 10:37 PM, Alexander Antimonov wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Klaus Ethgen wrote: >> I for myself have technical reasons why I dislike C++. And I also have > Could you, please, provide a list of your dislikes of C++? > >> concerns about

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams

On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > I for myself have technical reasons why I dislike C++. And I also have Could you, please, provide a list of your dislikes of C++? > concerns about maintainability. Many times the encapsulating breaks > necessary

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Am Sa den 24. Dez 2016 um 18:18 schrieb Alexander Antimonov: > > - Introduce new bugs (because big rewrites always do) > Sure, but with C++ port we can also simplify code, and less code - less bugs. > Now considerable part of Geeqie's code is

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams

On 12/24/2016 05:18 PM, Alexander Antimonov wrote: >> We should have a good expectation of improving life for our users ... > Users are important, but with such move we could improve developers' > life at least. More to the point, code that is easier maintain benefits developers as well as users.

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams

> We should have a good expectation of improving life for our users ... Users are important, but with such move we could improve developers' life at least. > - Introduce new bugs (because big rewrites always do) Sure, but with C++ port we can also simplify code, and less code - less bugs. Now

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams

Is there a case for what users will get if we make these changes? We should have a good expectation of improving life for our users or something similarly worthy if we were to undertake the risk of such a project. The following user effects come to mind, and they aren't overly positive: -

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams

Hi, I could take part in porting Geeqie to C++1x if it is decided to do so. I've been using different kinds of C++ (98/2003/201x) for more than 10 years. I believe the fundamental thing why C++ is better than C is C++ destructor and all the automatic actions that can be taken in it. It is very

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Omari, Am Fr den 23. Dez 2016 um 21:42 schrieb Omari Stephens: > It is at least hypothetically possible to port Geeqie to C++11 / GtkMM. > > Ignoring the inevitable ridiculous mountain of work that it would take, > does the end state seem like

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams

On 2016-12-23 20:42, Omari Stephens wrote: > It is at least hypothetically possible to port Geeqie to C++11 / GtkMM. [...snip...] > Thoughts? libstdc++ ABI compatibility problems? -- Please *no* private Cc: on mailing lists and newsgroups Personal signed mail: please _encrypt_ and sign Don't