Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams (+Win32)

2017-01-22 Thread Roger
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 05:03:36AM +, Ian Munsie wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 11:35 AM Roger <[1]rogerx@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Back in 2006 someone made a port of Gqview to windows. It died pretty > quickly. > >Was this because: > > > ... > >c) Windows users

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams (+Win32)

2017-01-21 Thread Ian Munsie
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 11:35 AM Roger wrote: > >Back in 2006 someone made a port of Gqview to windows. It died pretty > quickly. > >Was this because: > > > ... > >c) Windows users are happy with what they have, and would not bother > >with Geeqie > > My bets are on option

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams (+Win32)

2017-01-21 Thread Alexander Antimonov
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 3:26 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > While I also much prefer Geeqie to stay just a viewer, plus maybe a kind > of "shell" for editors [1], I disagree that Linux lacks lightweight > viewers. feh is currently my other favorite. > > [1] > On this topic, would

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams (+Win32)

2016-12-30 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Am Do den 29. Dez 2016 um 3:10 schrieb Josef Kufner: > Ian Zimmerman wrote, on 29.12.2016 02:26: > > On this topic, would it be interesting to create pipelines for editors, > > rather than just invoking them 1 by 1? For example, we could make

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams (+Win32)

2016-12-29 Thread Alexander Antimonov
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 4:10 AM, Josef Kufner wrote: > ... > I think there is a better way, but it would be a bit more complicated > to implement. I wonder if it is a bit too complex for a simple > use-cases. It is called "block programming". It is quite an old idea: > ... >

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams (+Win32)

2016-12-28 Thread Josef Kufner
Ian Zimmerman wrote, on 29.12.2016 02:26: > On this topic, would it be interesting to create pipelines for editors, > rather than just invoking them 1 by 1? For example, we could make it > possible to create a pipeline where an intricate batch imagemagick > command is called on the current image,

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams (+Win32)

2016-12-28 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2016-12-28 19:35, Roger wrote: > 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

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams (+Win32)

2016-12-28 Thread Roger
>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

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams (+Win32)

2016-12-28 Thread Colin Clark
On 24/12/16 15:39, Alexander Antimonov wrote: > While porting to C++1x it is good chance to make Geeqie more > cross-platform. But it seems Gtk is becoming (has become) an auxiliary > tool for the "GnomeOS". And some of the well-known projects was/is > migrating from Gtk. Maybe we should consider