Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 12.08.2009, 19:28 +0800 schrieb PCMan: >> After reading the webpages, I think this might be the future of gpicview. >> Any thoughts? > > viewnior is indeed a good program (I recently packaged it for Fedora) > and could become the default image viewer of LXDE. I like the clean > interface. It follows GNOME's HIG and fits well to the rest of the LXDE > desktop. gpicview on the other hand looks more like a rip-off of the > image viewer of Windows XP/Vista.
Just installed viewnior_0.6-1~ppa2~jaunty1_amd64.deb and gave it a head to head swing with gpicview (0.2.1). Image viewing is not what I spend most of my days doing so I might not appreciate the goodies in there but I like the UI of gpicview better. With the discussions we had about doing changes to make gpicview even more none-intrusive I have a hard time seeing a switch to an application that adds more clutter to the UI. What extra brings the menu bar for me? - can I hide it? Why do I need those big icons in the toolbar? - placing the toolbar at the top rather than the bottom I tend to like though. A legacy from the Windows father in GPicView I guess. > But before viewnior can replace gpicview it must be feature compatible. > Currently gpicview has a lot of features that viewnior lacks, most > notably lossless rotation of images, support for animated GIFs. basic > EXIF support etc. Maybe we can join the viewnior development to speed it > up? Has anybody contacted the vievnior developer and asked for his > plans? I would rather want to see a merge than a discontinued gpicview for now. > P.S.: One potential potential problem with viewnior: It supports setting > the wallpaper in GNOME. So if a distro builds viewnior with GNOME > support, we have a GConf dependency in LXDE. :( And that is just out of the question. just my €0.02 -- brother ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
