On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 11:35 AM Roger <rogerx....@gmail.com> wrote:

> >Back in 2006 someone made a port of Gqview to windows. It died pretty
> quickly.
> >Was this because:
> >
> ...
> >c) Windows users are happy with what they have, and would not bother
> >with Geeqie
>
> My bets are on option "c) Windows users are happy with what they have."
> They're happy with the default Windows' image viewer.  The default viewer
> is
> extremely easy and apparently light in resource usage.
>

How about option d) Windows users have never experienced a decent image
viewer and don't know what they are missing ;-p

I still use that old port actually because there is nothing better, though
it has some pretty severe issues like visually corrupting one in ten images
I throw at it. I'd love to join the dev team and work on a port based off
something more recent, but my time is stretched too thin as it is.

-Ian
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