Hello all! I spoke briefly with Lucas about this on GUADEC, and he seemed supportive of the idea, so here it is.
I'm the author of GtkImageView which is a widget that provides a zoom able and pane able view of a GdkPixbuf. The project has two purposes, first to serve my needs in another project and secondly to consolidate gtk+ image viewer implementations because I was annoyed at all minor differences. There are lots of image viewer/editing programs, all using their own code because there was no ready-made widget they could link to, but now there is! So my proposal is basically to replace EOG:s image viewer widget with GtkImageView. Advantages include (but are not limited to!): Decoupling (engineers love that). GIF animation support. Standardized keyboard and mouse interface (mostly borrowed from gThumb) and Image nav button. Disadvantages: Not so many because I've borrowed all the good ideas from EOG. :) Not so well supported because the widget is fairly new (first released April 2007). But there's no rush, I don't expect GtkImageView to be "mature enough" before GNOME 2.22 anyway. So, if you like, I can produce a proof of concept patch that demonstrates how EOG performs with GtkImageView. homepage: http://trac.bjourne.webfactional.com/ download: http://trac.bjourne.webfactional.com/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/gtkimageview-1.4.0.tar.gz documentation: http://trac.bjourne.webfactional.com/chrome/common/gtkimageview-docs/ What do you think? -- mvh Björn _______________________________________________ Eog-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/eog-list
