>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 Geeqie
My bets are on option "c) Windows users are happy with what they have." They're happy with the default Windows' image viewer. The default viewer is extremely easy and apparently light in resource usage. I usually then resort to The Gimp under Windows for further image editing functions. The Gimp GTK interfaces seems to work just fine under Windows. 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 fine, but for photography image browsing, GView/Geeqie was a God send. God send because GView/Geeqie is light and simple to use. I also think if Geeqie keeps gaining more image editing functions with those functions not having switches for deactivating of such image editing functions, users may start to sway towards other more heavier applications. (eg. If user is already loading an image editor, they may just opt to load some other heavy XYZ application.) Just guessing on the later here. I'm one of those, if I need image editing, I immediately use the more defacto imagemagick or The Gimp. -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
