On so 31. ledna 2009, Greg Troxel wrote: > 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. >
This looks more like a bug in GTK. Which GTK version do you have? (thumbnails are represented by the same pixbuf in both modes, the only difference is the rendering code, which is handled by a custom renderer in icon mode and by GTK in list mode) > 2) The view/Thumbnails menu item is greyed out. I don't get what this > is supposed to do. > It should be renamed to "Show thumbnails in list mode" or something similar. > 3) The editors menu includes xv. xv is non-free, so I'd like to see > that dropped. But this doesn't matter much. > I will rework the editor configuration completely, see my other mail. > 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). Could you send a screenshot? > > 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. > I suppose that lcms can detect this case and optimize the transformation to null operation, but I did not verify it. > 6) There is no obvious way to set a display profile. Perhaps i should > again switch to xorg and install it in the server. > It can be set in the advanced configuration. This was not changed since gqview. > 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. > This should work, the cache size can be set in advanced configuration, the default size is 128MB, that is 4 x 10MPix image. Or do you mean read ahead several images? > 8) Man page should probably have a single sentence that geeqie is a fork > of gqview. > OK > 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. > I think that most of the options need something like a tooltip with longer description. Vladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
