Re: why not replace individual programs? (xv)
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 08:58:48PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 13-Jun-00, 18:14 (CDT), Chris Pimlott <pimlottc@null.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> >
> > > FWIW, everything that you can do with xv can be done with some
> > > combination of the GIMP and xzgv packages in woody.
> > >
> > > The only advantage to xv is that the visual schnauzer is probably more
> > > fun to use than the GIMP's file selector, which (in 1.1.22) only shows
> > > one preview at a time (xzgv has a nice visual selector, but it has
> > > virtually no image editing capability).
> >
> > I beg to differ with you. xv is a small and quick graphics
> > viewer. The Gimp is a full fletched graphics editing package. As such,
> > it is not so spritely to load and, having many many more features than xv,
> > quite as simple to use as xv _for the purposes of graphics viewing_.
>
> I beg to differ with you. xv is a bastard combination of viewer and
> editor, and not terribly good at either. That's why Chris included xzgv.
>
> Let's try this: everything that you can do with xv you can do with
> either gqview or GIMP.
>
I just made some png files, and neither xzgv nor gqview can display them.
xv is fine. I am going to try to hunt the bug and send bugreport, but the point
in favor of xv is: xv is more mature, other viewers might have a bug or two....
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