On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:35:01PM -0500, Rick Pasotto 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. > > > > Basically, there are any number of functionality identical programs > > (ie 'display' from ImageMagick) that are Free and available through > > the normal Debian channels. > > They are not functionally *identical*. For example, if I view a picture > with 'display' and resize it, 'display' asks if I want to save it. 'Xv' > realized that the resizing was for viewing purposes only. Very annoying. > I personally would recommend qiv. A wonderful tool for viewing images. Just apt-get it and you will, probably, never worry about xv :-) Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. GPG KeyID : F6A35935 Fingerprint: D172 22C4 7CDC D9CD 62B5 55C1 2A69 D5D8 F6A3 5935 Reality is for people who lack imagination.
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