XnView Software

I fear dear sir that you have developed what is called the thumbnoliaphobia.
just get a decent computer (faster drives , more memory, faster processor) or try windows.
and you'll be cured.

and also..just try to stop calling people silly around here... you'll feel better.

XnView is many things to many people. Some may even prefer PhotoScape-style grids .

Sure, but that's quite off topic. this is a creator tool meant to create a composition.(this would most probably be a candidate for a plug-in.)

In any case I have a feeling that this discussion is sterile, until ...

To me, the Masonry approach isn't so much about optimzed use of screen real estate or aligning thumbnails along both the left and right margin ( justification ) of the pane. I like the concept, because it might enable XnView's browser to better accomodate thumbnails of images with mixed aspect ...

My opinion is that unless I have to work for a very long period (a very huge folder) in a specific folder only containing a unique format of images that strongly deviates from the 1:1 ratio,
going through the length of adjusting a thumbnail ratio that I will have to change back again once I get ...

Hi Thibaud,
1:1 is useful for folders with an even mix of both portrait and landscape images. But for folders dominated by one or the other orientation, 1:1 becomes increasingly inefficient.
For instance, I have many (many!) folders of horizontal panoramas. Compare three approaches to displaying ...

Someone please en-light me as to what the thumbnail ratio would do ?
AFAIK Thumbnails are strictly using the original image ratio. (and I fail to see any good reason why anyone would want to change that, cropped thumbnails ?)
Perhaps are you talking about the "thumbnail cell" which is conveniently ...

would it not occur to any of you that the texfield content plays a major role here...
none of the screenshots shows a usability issue (path cropped).
I don't see no problems.

The truth is, the bigger folder are actually more easily identified as being folder not containing any thumbs.
I suspect that the problem is that by using xnview for a while, you trained your brain at finding the logic in it's flawed way of displaying the folders.
I understand that it makes you ...

I'd say the way xnviewMP displays it, is the correct way.
I see no reason why the folder representation itself should change.

But why not just give a menu item like XnView classic,
I used to press Ctrl+U and Shift+Delete, and now none of them lefted in XnViewMP.
Ok, i'll add 'Batch convert' in view mode

I suppose having ctrl+u working in view mode isn't a problem.
But I still fail to understand the purpose of opening ...

Good point. Exactly.
Though id be curious to know why would someone prefer to use the "old" method (thumbs not fitting the view).
performance perhaps ?

Mhh, seems weird to have "fit" to be a button you'd need to push every time the browse pane is resized.
imo it should a be either a toggle button or an option in the settings that once turned on:
make the thumb size slider behaves like a step slider ranging from 1 thumb per row to 50 or whatever ...

I'm not sure having the thumbnail cell re-sized every time the browser window is re-sized will be much faster
I still believe this would look way better this empty space sitting at the end of each row is something that bothered me since xnview exist

I vote Yes for all points.

The changes seem very minor again.

new: multithreaded optimization for faster processing on multi
new: better optimization in some cases of greyscale images
misc: updated ZLib 1.2.5 to 1.2.7 (compression library)

Why not use zopfli ? Then the author could finally beat PNGOUT and OPTIPNG ...

also looks like there's some open source gpu based (cuda only) codec.
http://apps.man.poznan.pl/trac/jpeg2k/wiki