I have installed 1.0a3 (from pkgsrc) on netbsd 5.0RC1 i386. Basically it works. I am new to geeqie, still using gqview due to lack of time, but have been lurking on the list the whole time.
I have one serious issue, and a few minor comments.
1) Thumbnails show up wrong on the display in one of the display modes.
In icon view, which i prefer, they look great, just like gqview did. In
list view, they are horribly munged. I am running XFree86 with
default visual id: 0x22
visual:
visual id: 0x22
class: TrueColor
depth: 16 planes
available colormap entries: 64 per subfield
red, green, blue masks: 0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f
significant bits in color specification: 6 bits
on a Thinkpad T60. Maybe people expect 24, but I'd say this is not
broken. The thumbnails look like the bits are all wrong, maybe as if G
and B are in the 16. I can see some image features, but it looks
horrible. When I scroll up and down they get repainted different.y
(Yes, I know I should configure xorg with 24bpp. But geeqie should work
with 16 bpp.) I had this trouble with gqview before.
2) The view/Thumbnails menu item is greyed out. I don't get what this
is supposed to do.
3) The editors menu includes xv. xv is non-free, so I'd like to see
that dropped. But this doesn't matter much.
4) gps lat/lon is on one line, which means you can't see lon if you keep
exif window the right size for everything else. I suggest having two
lines, Lat and Lon, and omitting the word GPS. I realize exif says gps,
but the point is the position, not how it was measured, and how it was
measured is rarely of interest (known already, not changing).
5) default is color management, and I wonder if the code is smart enough
to match up srgb/srgb and omit the transform. It seems like it is, or
it's gotten faster than gqview.
6) There is no obvious way to set a display profile. Perhaps i should
again switch to xorg and install it in the server.
7) I have long wanted gqview to cache more than a few images, letting
you set a max memory size for the cache. A 1-image cache doesn't keep
up, and is slow flipping among 3 or 4 images.
8) Man page should probably have a single sentence that geeqie is a fork
of gqview.
9) I use thumbnails in .thumbnails. The options are indeed confusing.
Perhaps making them nerdier like "read cached thumbs from X" and "write
newly built thumbs to X" would help. I think the rule is freedesktop
cahce and .thumb are always read, and maybe thumbs are written, and if
so there are two choices.
Thanks for all your work maintaining and improving gqview/geeqie - I
don't know I'd manage my photos without it.
Greg
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