Re: xv alternatives
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:25:29PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> The features I really want are:
> 1. Lots of easy keyboard commands (Tab & Backspace were great in XV)
> 2. Intelligent scaling (I liked the zoom maxspect feature of XV, where
> it would zoom as close as possible to the screensize without changing
> the aspect ratio).
> 3. Simple image manipulation algorithms. I especially like the "smooth"
> algorithm, which would attempt to smooth out rought edges that
> resulted from scaling an image.
> 4. Simplicity. I don't want to have to install CORBA to get an image
> viewer. I want a nice, simple image viewer. I use the GIMP, but
> that's much bigger than what I'm asking for here.
>
> So what do people here like?
You can get points 1, 2 and 4 with gqview. Point 3 seems to be in
conflict with 4 somehow anyway. Use gimp for that.
Cheers,
Joost
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