XnView Software

XnView MP looks & works great. My opinion is that it should become main XnView version!

Is there a way to display in the browser the biggest icon from .ico file, not just the first?

JohnFredC wrote:I'll finally be able to abandon Opera (which has gotten progressively buggier and less web-site compatible in recent versions).

This is not a common opinion.
But the choice is yours of course.

Regarding XnView User Guide section:
- why full author's adress- really not needed, give the man a bit of privacy
- Support and Licence agreement regard XnView, not XnView user guide- wrong section
- why info on CHM files??? small note can be put into Using This Document section
- Both Trademarks ...

Unicode is a must! Hard to think what features can be more important, when the lack of this one makes work with some pictures impossible.

I think xnview's greatest weakness is it's self-inconsistancy. Xnview is a great program overall, but it's desperately needs to improve it's consistancy.


Yes, I agree, many modes are confusing. There are also different things that seem to be completely off-place and not completed.
I would like ...

Lesmo16 wrote:Wow, good to be informed about this impressive change!
Didn't you miss to mention, that the programmer did a fart last night?

Add to this the blatant advertising in the first post...

I think they can be left as is, because you lose independet searching for these fields. And I think it is rare to search for the same string in description/IPTC/EXIF.
But how to search a string in all fields???

Add checkbox "All fields" next to "Description" checkbox that deactivates IPTC/EXIF ...

xnview wrote:So only ONE setting for view & preview ?

I think yes, with hotkey to easy toggle it.

Are you talking about color-indexed images with alpha channel and transparency colour set? What is 'Show mask' about then?

I think it is not important to make entry for such setting in Options. It is enough to remember menu option state. Default transparency and alpha should be used, because it is ...

I think they can be left as is, because you lose independet searching for these fields. And I think it is rare to search for the same string in description/IPTC/EXIF.

I have found something like this:

http://vlivviewer.free.fr/vliv.htm

If you want to try how such option works for ImageShack and Flickr, try Directory Opus 9 filemanager, which has such feature.

I've thought about using categories tree to select many categories at the same time, and to construct simple queries (searches) in this way.
But also using Search dialog is OK.
It would be convenient then to have Saved searches in Categories tree.

Are there any plans to improve searching in categories? Currently there is none.