Re: xv

[Bart Dorsey <echobucket@gmail.com>]

If you have a 3d accelerated video card, gliv is pretty nice.... uses
opengl to scale and display the image... and the scroll wheel on a
mouse zooms in and out.

It also accepts multiple images from the command line, and a click of
the mouse make it slide show them with a neat fade from one image to
the next.

Highly recommended for the Oooo and Ahhhh Factor if for nothing else ;)



On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:22:37 -0800, Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:29:39AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> > On Friday 17 December 2004 11:15, Ivan Glushkov wrote:
> >
> > > I have a simple question:
> > > Why xv is not any more supported by Debian?
> >
> > I have a simple answer:
> > Because it's shareware.  See http://www.trilon.com/xv/pricing.html for
> > details.
> 
> The fact that it's shareware has nothing to do with it.  Or are you one of
> the less-than-clued who thinks you can't pay for software?
> 
> Debian no longer distributes xv because the license says you can't
> distribute modified versions, which fails the DFSG.
> 
> Not that you can't build it yourself... you can find the Potato source
> package (which was -26) several places on the 'net, and build it locally.
> It needs fixing... it wasn't being maintained very well and several of the
> patches it needs don't apply correctly.  It's also several official "John
> Bradley" security patches behind.
> 
> Random debs you find usually won't install in unstable as unstable no
> longer has an xlibs6g package.
> 
> > Basically, there are any number of functionality identical programs (ie
> > 'display' from ImageMagick) that are Free and available through the normal
> > Debian channels.
> 
> There are very few image viewers that do everything xv does, all rolled
> into one binary.  I wish all software stood the test of time as well as xv
> has.
> 
> --
>  Marc Wilson |     The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the
>  msw@cox.net |     travellers pay the expense of it.  -- Josh Billings
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