gimmage 0.1.8 review
Downloadgimmage is an image viewer that is perfect for command line usage as it accepts directories and image filenames as arguments. It h
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gimmage is an image viewer that is perfect for command line usage as it accepts directories and image filenames as arguments.
It has an in-application file browser that allows users to select and drag images and directories into the image viewing area in order to have them displayed.
Requirements:
gtkmm
gnomevfs
Known issues:
drag scrolling with the mouse is quite quirky, I'll have to look into that sometime!
scrolling with the arrow keys does not work, use the number keypad instead
zooming uses a very innefficient method and it looks rather strange when the image is recentered after zooming in or out
the program will probably not be able to open files with non-european characters in their filename
Installation:
in the extraction directory do:
sh make.sh
this will compile and install in /usr/bin and /usr/share/gimmage alternatively you can do:
sh make.sh -DLOCAL
for a version which will be runnable from the extraction directory or
sh make.sh -DDEBUG
or any combination thereof for the debugging version, just add any CFLAGS that you want to have added
NOTE: if you do not have sudo installed or configured, you will have to manually copy gimmage to /usr/bin and change it's permissions and copy the icons directory to /usr/share/gimmage
What's New in This Release:
Reversed orientation of zoom-in/zoom-out buttons following suggestion by Scott Horrowitz.
Changed the Makefile so that the "debug" version compiles without additional CFLAGS on gentoo.
Stop using /dev/null when there is no file to load and don't confuse the user with an error-like message, just show a blank screen.
Give error message only when a file was recognized to be an image but fails to load.
Give visual feedback to keypresses (ie: activate corresponding buttons)
Attempt at preventing crash when gimmage is not in user's $PATH. -Pressing escape quits gimmage.
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