Bug#931534: ITP: viu -- Command-line application to view images from the terminal
On 7/7/19 11:51 AM, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 11:25:47AM +0200, Wolfgang Silbermayr wrote:
>> Package name: viu
>> Upstream Author: Atanas Yankov <atanas.yankov98@gmail.com>
>> URL: https://github.com/atanunq/viu
>> Description:
>> viu is a small command-line application to view images from the terminal
>> written in Rust. It uses unicode lower half blocks to fit 2 pixels into
>> a single cell by adjusting foreground and background colors accordingly.
>
> Hi!
> This looks exactly as what "catimg" does -- is there are any reason to
> prefer viu over catimg?
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> Thus: is there anything viu does better than the above tools?
In fact, catimg is new to me. I did a quick test, and it looks quite good.
I follow what is happening in the Rust crates ecosystem, so I stumbled
over viu when it got published, and thought it would be great to have
this tool packaged.
A quick test showed nearly identical output when scaled to the same size
(with minimal difference in colors, I assume due to downscaling).
What I find a bit inconvenient is that catimg defaults to the full
terminal width whereas viu takes both height and width of the terminal
into account.
Do you think it's a disadvantage to have some similar command-line tools
packaged where some people would prefer one and some the other?
Especially with the consideration that - at least in my experience -
rust packages require very low amount of work for packaging and maintenance?
Wolfgang.
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