Bug#822177: RFP: mihphoto -- Touch-friendly image viewer
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : mihphoto
Version : 1.0.13
Upstream Author : Mihai Paslariu <unknown>
* URL : http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/MihPhoto+-+Touch-friendly+image+viewer?content=137949
* License : GPL v3
Programming Lang: C++, Qt
Description : Touch-friendly image viewer
For clarification:
I (hikaru.debian@web.de) am not the author of this software, nor am I affiliated with it in any way. I am also not qualified in helping to maintain it.
Original author's description from website:
> MihPhoto is meant to be a simple touchscreen-friendly image viewer. There a lot of very good image viewers, including many opensource ones, but most of them are very difficult to handle on a touchscreen. This application was designed with touchscreens in mind so it is most useful if you have a touchscreen. To use the application just open an image; then you can use the a swipe gesture to browse trough all the images located in the same folder as the first one.
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> MihPhoto works best on multitouch devices. On devices (or operating systems) that don't support multitouch, the application also includes a single-touch mode which can be enabled with a command line parameter.
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> I originally developed this application in my spare time for my personal use. Then I decide to post it here, in the hope that others may find it useful.
I stumbled upon this software in the search for a simple image viewer that works well on single-touch displays without a keyboard or a mouse (multiple mouse buttons), and it works better in this scenario than any viewer currently available in Debian, because they all rely on keyboard navigation, multiple mouse buttons or menus (which are hard to navigate if your cursor is a 100px wide finger) for basic functions like changing images or switching between fullscreen mode and browsing your image collection.
I tried to reproduce similar functionality by combining different conventional image viewers with different approaches of gesture recognition tools, but got no satisfactory results.
It builds straightforward on Jessie after meeting some basic dependencies (which I can't remember right now, but are all included in Debian).
One thing that might be a problem though is, that upstream seems to have pretty much abandoned the project. The last activity is from early 2014.
Some time ago this software was apparently present on different software development platforms, but nowadays qt-apps.org seems to be the only one that hosts the latest version. It even has vanished from gnome-look.org altogether.
Part of my motivation for filing this report is my hope to save this quite unique software from oblivion, in case it disappears from qt-apps.org too. Another reason of course is, that I hope some Debian maintainer sees the potential in it that I do, and eases the end-user access by providing a Debian package.
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