On Wednesday 01 July 2009 16:17:20 Luis A. Florit wrote: > 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? >
Hi Luis, Geeqie operates on a list of files and the list is acquired by reading the directory (like GQView). This behavior is not configurable in current code. In future releases I want to make the filelist source more generic - a directory, search results, list from commandline - this one is what you want. But this is currently in a planning phase. Vladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
