>One of my all time favorites was a little image viewing app >JpegView. One of its greatest strengths was its ability to do slide >shows. You could point it at a folder with hundreds of images >(importantly folder with sub folders) and it would display them to >you, randomly too. >I havent been able to find anything similar under OSX. There was >JPEGDeux which lacks the slide show feature. I had another slide >show app which just barfed if you had more than 50 or so pictures. > >Anyone find a *useful* slideshow app under X? (Oh and iPhoto doesn't >count, I much prefer my images not to be copied to the iPhoto >library).
Unless I'm hallucinating really badly this time, JPEGDeux does have a slideshow feature -- that's what all the stuff under the "Slideshow" menu is about. It even supports slide transitions and precaching of images (which is nice if you have a fair bit of RAM). I haven't had any trouble using v1.7b with a few dozen images, though I haven't tried hundreds. And it does have a "Recursively scan subdirectories" option. What it does leave out is the ability to just open images, independently of a slideshow. It's interface isn't as nice as the simple one that JPEGView had, but it works fairly well. And maybe the more recent versions have been improved a bit. -Ry
