Hi again,
Am Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 04:21:50PM -0500 schrieb Theodore Tso:
>
> Based on how I use xzgv personally, I find nsxiv to be a closer match
> for me, although it doesn't have the file browsing feature which
> geeqie does have --- although I do find how they implement them to be
> quite annoying.
> ...
How do we go from here. I think we have no chance to distribute xzgv
with Debian 14. So we probably need to ask for removal of this package
(to my exerience its easier to convince the archive team if this is done
by the maintainer). Given that we have quite a number of packages using
GTK2 I would love to help our users to migrate in a sensible way.
> So from the perspective of my own personal use, I would probably never
> use geeqie, but pick nsxiv instead. However, there may be some xzgv
> users who would find "geeqee ~/Images" to be what they want.
>
> Hmm... perhaps eog ("eye of gnome") might be a better suggested
> replacement for xzgv? Its image gallery is not quite a replacement of
> the file selector, as it shows thumbnails instead of filenames, but
> it's close.
Finally users need to decide, but do you see some sensible migration
path? Or is just removing the package and let users find out themselves
the only feasible option. I actualy have no idea but if the latter
is the case it might be better to remove it rather sooner than later
to have a large time span until the next release.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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