Brian: Although the gqview is not actively developed in the past one and half year, there has no officially announcement the project is terminated.
Personnaly,I think gqview 2.0.4 is a very stable release, it will not spend much effort to maintain it, and we are not going to ship it by default, this will show as a optional package (which is same to Ubuntu) Talking about the GUI, I'm not saying the gqview if better than gthumb. They are just in two different style, gthumb is more a traditional gnome application, while gqview gives more Windows like look and feel. I think we can give user choice based on their preference. Chris Brian Cameron ??: > > Chris: > > Is it a good idea to integrate an application which hasn't been actively > maintained in a year-and-a-half, and which also has very similar > functionality to gthumb? While I appreciate giving users choice, I'm > not sure that a program which isn't being actively developed anymore is > the best "choice". Wouldn't it be better to simply spend some effort > improving the UI of gthumb if that is the only deficiency that gqview > addresses? > > Brian > > >> gqview and gthumb are similar applications, I'll call them image >> organizer. With these applications, user can easily organize and >> management there images, they generally only have limited image >> processing operation available. For my opinion, gqview offers better >> UI than gthumb, but it really depends on users preference. I don't >> think we are going to replace gthumb with gqview but keep them >> together to give users more choices. >> >> Thanks and Regards, >> Chris >> >> James Gates ??: >>> Where does this tool fit amongst all the other image viewers/editors >>> that are already available in OpenSolaris (e.g. ImageMagick, eog, >>> gthumb & gimp)? What does gqview have that none of the others >>> provide? Are any of the others made obsolete by the addition of gqview? >>> >>> >>> Shi-Ying Irene Huang wrote: >>>> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.66 04/17/08 SMI >>>> This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems >>>> 1. Introduction >>>> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: >>>> Gqview for OpenSolaris >>>> 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: >>>> Author: Chris Wang >>>> 1.3 Date of This Document: >>>> 15 July, 2008 >>>> 4. Technical Description >>>> This information is Sun Proprietary/Confidential: Engineering >>>> Need-to-Know >>>> Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems >>>> >>>> 1. Introduction >>>> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: GQview for Solaris 1.2. Name >>>> of Document Author/Supplier: Chris Wang 1.3. Date of This Document: >>>> 07/07/08 >>>> 1.5. Email Aliases: >>>> 1.5.1. Responsible Manager: leo.binchy at sun.com >>>> 1.5.2. Responsible Engineer: chris.wang at sun.com, >>>> >>>> 2. Project Summary >>>> 2.1. Project Description: >>>> GQview is an image viewer for Unix operating systems. Its key features >>>> include single click file viewing, external editor support, >>>> thumbnail preview, and zoom features. Some image management >>>> features are also included. >>>> >>>> 4. Technical Description: >>>> 4.1. Details: >>>> Features of gqview include: >>>> .Thumbnail list display. >>>> .Thumbnails can be cached to disk for faster subsequent loads. >>>> .One click file selection. >>>> .Zoom in, out, and fit to window. >>>> .Slideshow. >>>> .Mode that zoom reverts to on a new image can be configured. >>>> .File filtering options. >>>> .Can open a file in an external program (customizable). >>>> .Collections (file lists). >>>> .Search utility. >>>> .Find duplicates based on file attributes or image content. >>>> .Full screen viewing. >>>> .EXIF support. >>>> .Printing, including proof sheets. >>>> .Can attach keywords and comments to images. >>>> .Supports the Thumbnail managing standard. >>>> .Command line control of existing GQview process. >>>> >>>> GQview doesn't come with any decoder, and doesn't use any interface >>>> from image libraries (PNG,JPEG etc.). Gdk-pixbuf automatically invoke >>>> one of a handful of its image format loaders to convert the graphics >>>> file into an RGB buffer, and then GQview reads data from Gdk-pixbuf. >>>> This means GQView supports image format that supported by Gdk-pixbuf >>>> availabe on the system. >>>> >>>> 4.5. Interfaces: >>>> Exported interfaces: >>>> Interface Stability Comment >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> >>>> SUNWgqview Committed SVr4 package /usr/bin/gqview Volatile gqview >>>> command line >>>> Imported Interfaces Interface Stability Comments >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> >>>> GNOME Committed Platform Libraries Committed LSARC/2007/520 GTK+ >>>> library >>>> GNOME 2.20 >>>> 4.9. I18N/L10N Impact: >>>> GQview includes translation of serveral language, The JDS team and >>>> the G11N are working together to evaluate I18N/L10N support >>>> 4.10. Packaging & Delivery: >>>> The project will be delivering the following packages: >>>> SUNWgqview 4.11. Security Impact: >>>> No impact >>>> 5. Reference Documents: >>>> 1.SUNWgqview pkgmap >>>> pkginfo >>>> depend >>>> 2.GQView community >>>> http://gqview.sourceforge.net >>>> >>>> 3.GQView user manual http://gqview.sourceforge.net/docs/index.html >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 6. Resources and Schedule >>>> 6.4. Steering Committee requested information >>>> 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name: >>>> Desktop >>>> 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack >>>> 6.6. ARC Exposure: open >>>> >>> >> >
