XnView Software

XnView: MP 1.9.0 - 64 bit
OS: Linux

I can reproduce this bug also.


Bug seems to only be affected in Thumbnails and Icons view.
Bug was introduced in 1.9.0. In version 1.8.8 the intended behaviour works.


Step 1
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To summarize the suggestions so far.


Enable Feature: From Settings

Option in "Tools > Settings > File list". See FIG2 .
This would define a global value for the browser to ALWAYS sort files according the order in the loaded FILELIST file.
To better emphasis that this option is a global ...

* The Filelist could have a top line of options, prefixed with * (which won't appear in a file name) specifying what to do when opened, which could include sorting but could include other settings, perhaps in the format of command-line options (using the same names where coinciding). I think this ...

To provide more clarity. Let me explain the user interaction flow.

We have 2 different users. They both want to keep the order of files, as it appears in the FILELIST file. But in different ways.

User 1:

Desire:
- Keep the same file order and override the sort order. TRUE.
- But ONLY when I ...

To Reproduce

I'm using Linux. On Windows you can use WSL or follow the steps using your own process.

Example 1

To generate 6 numbered images, then add to filelist.

Requires 'imagemagick'

Copy and paste the whole code in a terminal. Remember to change "FONT-NAME".


mkdir colors; \
cd ...

I use this AI application for upscaling, interpolation and enhancing videos, and upscaling and enhancing photos.

Topaz Photo AI - https://www.topazlabs.com/topaz-photo-ai
Topaz Video AI - https://www.topazlabs.com/topaz-video-ai

I also use Davinci Resolve to then do further adjustment using the ...

A related feature, I don't think has been mentioned on this forum.

- If your operating system is Linux based with GTK.
- Passing environment variable QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2

You can override the folder icons. Place the icons in these destination paths.

Path for SMALL folder:
~/.icons/hicolor ...

When a FILELIST is loaded from a text file. I expect the files to be sorted, as it appears in my filelist.txt.

I disagree
filelist must be sorted as per app's existing 'Sort by' setting

Yes. By default, it should be sorted as per the "Sort by" configuration setting values.

[Browser]
sort ...

Expected Outcome

When a FILELIST is loaded from a text file. I expect the files to be sorted, as it appears in my filelist.txt.

This seems logical, as a filelist is a "curated" list. Similar to a sorted bookshelf, that may be sorted according to "theme", "topic", "author" etc. Users may want to ...

I can't replicate this, or find it within my xnview.ini. I am using version 1.8.8 (Linux).

I would simply remove that line for now. It's not important. It is not valid, because it is missing the KEY. For example, it should be KEY="======" .

Within Batch convert, there are numerous options that ...

Can you provide the fulll line from xnview.ini.

If you intend on doing version control or backup of xnview.ini . You should also consider, removing history of files from being logged. Not just for privacy reasons, but that it will produce a false positive when doing 'diff', as these values change all the time as you use the program.


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Thanks for the suggestion and Python script! I'll try that out…


Okay. I improved the script to format the INI file properly and provide the features you wanted.

As you want to perform version control, the INI file needs to be sorted alphabetically. It can now take an argument flag '-s' to sort ...

Sorry. I just noticed an issue. The INI file is using "camelCase" for KEYs.

Please use the updated revision, which preserves the case https://gist.github.com/Neuro-NX/d0d4a0 ... 2c6ac50e25

JSON is a better serialized format for version control or backup purposes.

For those wanting to backup their xnview.ini file.
I created a python script that will convert an INI file to JSON. Here => https://gist.github.com/Neuro-NX/d0d4a062ae0dfd4269ad5c2c6ac50e25

You can then backup the JSON ...