Hi,
I've used gqview (patched) for a couple of years and like it a
lot, particularly its speed. However, it has some problems that forced
me to patch it further.
Today someone at the KDE IRC channel pointed me to geeqie. Of
course I had to love it also. :o) However, it (seems to) share some
of the weaknesses that forced me to patch gqview. The most important
is the following:
When I open a particular file or files in a directory with several
tenths of thousands of pictures, it takes forever to load. I (dirtily)
patched gqview to avoid this, but wanted to know if this will somehow
change, or I had to patch geeqie also, or if geeqie already has a
workaround for this.
I don't want a file viewer to do anything with my pictures, in
particular, do not want it to manage collections, metadata, keywords
or whatever. I already do that with other software. I want the viewer
to be FAST. If I give the viewer a directory, I expect it to sort the
files somehow, but if I give it a list of 5 particular pictures, I
don't want it to do anything but to show me that list, ordered as I
gave it (a la xv) and not to waste time ordering a directory with
50000 other pictures that I don't care about in that moment.
I love the external editors in geeqie, the sort manager, the
configurability. But speed is a must for me.
So: Am I missing something? Can geeqie already do what I want?
Thanks a lot!!
L.
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