[opensuse] A decent image viewer for openSUSE 13.1
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Until now I used kuickshow image viewer in openSUSE. The reason I liked it so much that almost everything related to viewing images could be done using the keyboard. In openSUSE 13.1 with KDE4 now I have gwenview. Only a few things can be done with it using the keyboard. I do not need an image organizer, I need a viewer for looking images in a selected directory. In kuickshow using keyboard commands I could: -switch on/off full screen -zoom to fit screen, switch to original size, zoom in/out -rotate images to right, left, flip, mirror image -move to next, previous, first, last image -increase/decrease brightness and contrast All the above without modifying the image. In gwenview if I rotate ans image the program wants to save it modified, which I don't want. I don't want a viewer to be able to modify an image, except if I directly specify to -delete, copy, save image, which could be done too in kuickshow using the keyboard. I just found that in gwenview I can not decrease (zoom out) the images size for view, ie zoom out does nothing. Any suggestion? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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If xv is still available for SuSE > 12.3, give that a try. (Sorry, haven't looked for it in 13.1 repos.) It can do what you want and, though it can, it won't try to save any mods. IIRC, you have to do explicit saves. Yes, it's like 20 years old but it still works good and is the only viewer that does what it does. You'd have to get several different viewers/editors to be able to do all the things xv does. I'm glad it's still available and no one has (yet) "improved" it or reinvented it into something less useful. jd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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jdebert írta:
If xv is still available for SuSE > 12.3, give that a try. (Sorry, haven't looked for it in 13.1 repos.) It can do what you want and, though it can, it won't try to save any mods. IIRC, you have to do explicit saves.
Yes, it's like 20 years old but it still works good and is the only viewer that does what it does. You'd have to get several different viewers/editors to be able to do all the things xv does.
I'm glad it's still available and no one has (yet) "improved" it or reinvented it into something less useful.
I know of xc but never used it. Maybe it's time to get familiar with it. Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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On 08/25/2014 06:44 PM, Istvan Gabor wrote:
jdebert írta:
If xv is still available for SuSE > 12.3, give that a try. (Sorry, haven't looked for it in 13.1 repos.) It can do what you want and, though it can, it won't try to save any mods. IIRC, you have to do explicit saves.
Yes, it's like 20 years old but it still works good and is the only viewer that does what it does. You'd have to get several different viewers/editors to be able to do all the things xv does.
I'm glad it's still available and no one has (yet) "improved" it or reinvented it into something less useful. I know of xc but never used it. Maybe it's time to get familiar with it.
Istvan
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Hallo Istvan, op 24-08-14 18:26 schreef je:
Until now I used kuickshow image viewer in openSUSE. The reason I liked it so much that almost everything related to viewing images could be done using the keyboard. In openSUSE 13.1 with KDE4 now I have gwenview. Only a few things can be done with it using the keyboard. I do not need an image organizer, I need a viewer for looking images in a selected directory. In kuickshow using keyboard commands I could:
-switch on/off full screen -zoom to fit screen, switch to original size, zoom in/out -rotate images to right, left, flip, mirror image -move to next, previous, first, last image -increase/decrease brightness and contrast
All the above without modifying the image.
Most of your list can be done. Ctrl+M shows the menubar - there you will find a lot of keyboard shortcuts. You can make your own shortcuts too.
In gwenview if I rotate ans image the program wants to save it modified, which I don't want. I don't want a viewer to be able to modify an image, except if I directly specify to
Ctrl+Z :)
-delete, copy, save image, which could be done too in kuickshow using the keyboard.
I just found that in gwenview I can not decrease (zoom out) the images size for view, ie zoom out does nothing. Any suggestion?
I looked around, but couldn't find a way to zoom out (except after zooming in, of course). Harrie -- Harrie Baken | Tekstbureau TekstBaken Copy-editing - proofreading (Dutch) http://www.tekstbaken.nl/ Registered Linux user #366560 | openSUSE 13.1 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Am 24.08.2014 20:19, schrieb Harrie Baken:
Hallo Istvan, op 24-08-14 18:26 schreef je:
Until now I used kuickshow image viewer in openSUSE. The reason I liked it so much that almost everything related to viewing images could be done using the keyboard. In openSUSE 13.1 with KDE4 now I have gwenview. Only a few things can be done with it using the keyboard. I do not need an image organizer, I need a viewer for looking images in a selected directory. In kuickshow using keyboard commands I could:
-switch on/off full screen -zoom to fit screen, switch to original size, zoom in/out -rotate images to right, left, flip, mirror image -move to next, previous, first, last image -increase/decrease brightness and contrast
All the above without modifying the image.
Most of your list can be done. Ctrl+M shows the menubar - there you will find a lot of keyboard shortcuts. You can make your own shortcuts too.
In gwenview if I rotate ans image the program wants to save it modified, which I don't want. I don't want a viewer to be able to modify an image, except if I directly specify to
Ctrl+Z :)
-delete, copy, save image, which could be done too in kuickshow using the keyboard.
I just found that in gwenview I can not decrease (zoom out) the images size for view, ie zoom out does nothing. Any suggestion?
I looked around, but couldn't find a way to zoom out (except after zooming in, of course).
Harrie
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:mad_soft/kuickshow It is the only image-viewer that simply works, without any useless decorations and millions of unnecessary options. I am on 12.3 and the rpm from the above url works perfect under kde4, and I see in the list, that there is 13.1, too... hth Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com google+: https://plus.google.com/109534388657020287386 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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On 2014-08-25 09:58 (GMT+0200) Daniel Bauer composed:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:mad_soft/kuickshow
It is the only image-viewer that simply works, without any useless decorations and millions of unnecessary options. I am on 12.3 and the rpm from the above url works perfect under kde4, and I see in the list, that there is 13.1, too...
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Le 25/08/2014 09:58, Daniel Bauer a écrit :
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:mad_soft/kuickshow
It is the only image-viewer that simply works, without any useless decorations and millions of unnecessary options. I am on 12.3 and the rpm from the above url works perfect under kde4, and I see in the list, that there is 13.1, too...
zypper in kuickshow-0.9.2-4.1.x86_64.rpm Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies... Problem: nothing provides imlib-nogdk needed by kuickshow-0.9.2-4.1.x86_64 Solution 1: do not install kuickshow-0.9.2-4.1.x86_64 Solution 2: break kuickshow-0.9.2-4.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies jdd -- http://www.dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Am 25.08.2014 11:04, schrieb jdd:
Le 25/08/2014 09:58, Daniel Bauer a écrit :
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:mad_soft/kuickshow
It is the only image-viewer that simply works, without any useless decorations and millions of unnecessary options. I am on 12.3 and the rpm from the above url works perfect under kde4, and I see in the list, that there is 13.1, too...
zypper in kuickshow-0.9.2-4.1.x86_64.rpm Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies...
Problem: nothing provides imlib-nogdk needed by kuickshow-0.9.2-4.1.x86_64 Solution 1: do not install kuickshow-0.9.2-4.1.x86_64 Solution 2: break kuickshow-0.9.2-4.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
jdd
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Le 25/08/2014 11:13, Daniel Bauer a écrit :
Am 25.08.2014 11:04, schrieb jdd:
Le 25/08/2014 09:58, Daniel Bauer a écrit :
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:mad_soft/kuickshow
It is the only image-viewer that simply works, without any useless decorations and millions of unnecessary options. I am on 12.3 and the rpm from the above url works perfect under kde4, and I see in the list, that there is 13.1, too...
zypper in kuickshow-0.9.2-4.1.x86_64.rpm Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies...
Problem: nothing provides imlib-nogdk needed by kuickshow-0.9.2-4.1.x86_64 Solution 1: do not install kuickshow-0.9.2-4.1.x86_64 Solution 2: break kuickshow-0.9.2-4.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
jdd
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:mad_soft/imlib-nogdk
thanks installs but only shows black windows :-( (13.1) jdd -- http://www.dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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jdd írta:
Le 25/08/2014 11:13, Daniel Bauer a écrit :
Am 25.08.2014 11:04, schrieb jdd:
Le 25/08/2014 09:58, Daniel Bauer a écrit :
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:mad_soft/kuickshow
It is the only image-viewer that simply works, without any useless decorations and millions of unnecessary options. I am on 12.3 and the rpm from the above url works perfect under kde4, and I see in the list, that there is 13.1, too...
zypper in kuickshow-0.9.2-4.1.x86_64.rpm Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies...
Problem: nothing provides imlib-nogdk needed by kuickshow-0.9.2-4.1.x86_64 Solution 1: do not install kuickshow-0.9.2-4.1.x86_64 Solution 2: break kuickshow-0.9.2-4.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
jdd
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:mad_soft/imlib-nogdk
thanks
installs but only shows black windows :-( (13.1)
I added the mentioned repo to yast software repositories and installed kuickshow using yast software manager. kuikshow -kde4 works on my system (tried with jpg and png images), I don't have black windows. Thanks Daniel! Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Le 25/08/2014 23:49, Istvan Gabor a écrit :
kuikshow -kde4 works on my system (tried with jpg and png images), I don't have black windows.
works now. Needed a night brake :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Le 26/08/2014 09:38, jdd a écrit :
Le 25/08/2014 23:49, Istvan Gabor a écrit :
kuikshow -kde4 works on my system (tried with jpg and png images), I don't have black windows.
works now. Needed a night brake :-)
?? works randmly. on the same images, sometime display the image, sometime only a black content :-( jdd -- http://www.dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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* Istvan Gabor <suseuser04@freemail.hu> [08-24-14 12:26]:
Until now I used kuickshow image viewer in openSUSE. The reason I liked it so much that almost everything related to viewing images could be done using the keyboard. In openSUSE 13.1 with KDE4 now I have gwenview. Only a few things can be done with it using the keyboard. I do not need an image organizer, I need a viewer for looking images in a selected directory. In kuickshow using keyboard commands I could:
-switch on/off full screen -zoom to fit screen, switch to original size, zoom in/out -rotate images to right, left, flip, mirror image -move to next, previous, first, last image -increase/decrease brightness and contrast
All the above without modifying the image. In gwenview if I rotate ans image the program wants to save it modified, which I don't want. I don't want a viewer to be able to modify an image, except if I directly specify to
-delete, copy, save image, which could be done too in kuickshow using the keyboard.
I just found that in gwenview I can not decrease (zoom out) the images size for view, ie zoom out does nothing.
Any suggestion?
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Patrick Shanahan írta:
* Istvan Gabor [08-24-14 12:26]:
Until now I used kuickshow image viewer in openSUSE. The reason I liked it so much that almost everything related to viewing images could be done using the keyboard. In openSUSE 13.1 with KDE4 now I have gwenview. Only a few things can be done with it using the keyboard. I do not need an image organizer, I need a viewer for looking images in a selected directory. In kuickshow using keyboard commands I could:
-switch on/off full screen -zoom to fit screen, switch to original size, zoom in/out -rotate images to right, left, flip, mirror image -move to next, previous, first, last image -increase/decrease brightness and contrast
All the above without modifying the image. In gwenview if I rotate ans image the program wants to save it modified, which I don't want. I don't want a viewer to be able to modify an image, except if I directly specify to
-delete, copy, save image, which could be done too in kuickshow using the keyboard.
I just found that in gwenview I can not decrease (zoom out) the images size for view, ie zoom out does nothing.
Any suggestion?
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/martinkoller/openSUSE_Factor...
This one is quite OK, seems to have configurable keyboard shortcuts. This one is the closest to kuickshow among those viewers I tried so far.
Interesting but I prefer the former one. What I like least in this that I can not change the transparent background (at least couldn't find out how to). In the meantime, thanks to Daniel, I could install kuickshow-kde4. Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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On 2014-08-24 18:26, Istvan Gabor wrote:
Any suggestion?
shotwell - also wants to write image after rotation, but you can say no easily. The rotation is just a "flag", the file is not altered save that flag. gnome view image (aka eye of gnome) - same thing. gthumb - when told to rotate, wants to do a physical rotate. Ristretto - rotate is temporary, not saved. Showphoto (digikam) - wants to save f-spot - crashes. Could not test. cer@Telcontar:~> f-spot [Info 03:56:16.802] Initializing Mono.Addins (f-spot:12564): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property __gtksharp_8_FSpot_Widgets_CellRendererTextProgress::value after class was initialised (f-spot:12564): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property __gtksharp_8_FSpot_Widgets_CellRendererTextProgress::text after class was initialised (f-spot:12564): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: GdkPixbufLoader finalized without calling gdk_pixbuf_loader_close() - this is not allowed. You must explicitly end the data stream to the loader before dropping the last reference. Could not allocate -32 bytes Stacktrace: at <unknown> <0xffffffff> at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi (intptr) <0xffffffff> at Cms.Profile.get_ProductDescription () <0x0006b> at FSpot.ColorManagement.AddProfiles (string,System.Collections.Generic.IDictionary`2<string, Cms.Profile>) <0x000e7> at FSpot.ColorManagement.AddProfiles (string,System.Collections.Generic.IDictionary`2<string, Cms.Profile>) <0x002b7> at FSpot.ColorManagement.get_Profiles () <0x001bb> at FSpot.TagSelectionWidget.IconDataFunc (Gtk.TreeViewColumn,Gtk.CellRenderer,Gtk.TreeModel,Gtk.TreeIter) <0x000eb> .... and a lot more debug text. And the oldies ;-) xv - rotates and does not save on quit. display - same thing. And others I did not try. Krita, okular... okular? Well, yes, okular is nice and also does not save the rotation. But I did not see a shortcut key. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
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Hello, On Sun, 24 Aug 2014, Istvan Gabor wrote:
Any suggestion?
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Until now I used kuickshow image viewer in openSUSE. The reason I liked it so much that almost everything related to viewing images could be done using
On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 18:26:19 Istvan Gabor wrote: the keyboard. In openSUSE 13.1 with KDE4 now I have gwenview. Only a few things can be done with it using the keyboard. I do not need an image organizer, I need a viewer for looking images in a selected directory. In kuickshow using keyboard commands I could:
-switch on/off full screen -zoom to fit screen, switch to original size, zoom in/out -rotate images to right, left, flip, mirror image -move to next, previous, first, last image -increase/decrease brightness and contrast
All the above without modifying the image. In gwenview if I rotate ans image
the program wants to save it modified, which I don't want. I don't want a viewer to be able to modify an image, except if I directly specify to
-delete, copy, save image, which could be done too in kuickshow using the
keyboard.
I just found that in gwenview I can not decrease (zoom out) the images size
for view, ie zoom out does nothing.
Any suggestion?
An oldie but a goodie - imagemagick is fully cli based and can do pretty much everything you want to do. Actually, it is a collection of cli utilities rather than just one monolithic app. Being CLI based means it can easily be scripted for batch operations too. You may find it is already installed; use "display <imagename> to view images, convert <options> to convert images between formats etc. It can do everything you want to do (and probably more). -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ============================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Any suggestion?
Does the tool "Simple X Image Viewer" fit to your expectations? https://github.com/muennich/sxiv/ Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Carlos E. R.
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Daniel Bauer
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David Haller
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Felix Miata
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Harrie Baken
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Istvan Gabor
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jdd
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jdebert
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Ken Schneider - openSUSE
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Markus Elfring
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Patrick Shanahan
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Rodney Baker