XnView Software

One thing I'm missing is a .desktop file on Gnome. I can't find the program on the activities view, I have to launch XnConvert via console.

FYI: XnViewMP and XnConvert are now available on Flathub. Not up on the website yet, but can be installed already via console.

I am in the process of submitting them to the Flathub repo.

Cool, thanks for the initiative.

https://snapcraft.io/xnviewmp

Doesn't look like it's official. I'm not sure how I should feel about a 3rd party being involved. Is this sanctioned by the developer?

xnview wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2018 7:00 pm XnConvert MP (XnView batch convert as multi-platform standalone program) is available.

Erm… and where? Or is XnConvert == XnConvert MP?

There's https://flathub.org/ now, where you can publish your software, if you want. The configs are all hosted on Github, so all you have to do is fork the Flathub project, add your config and add a pull request. More details here: https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki/App-Submission

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xnview wrote:What about an optimization feature (post-processing) with support of Guetzli, MozJPEG, JpegOptim, PNGOUT, PNGCRUSH, OptiPNG??

Not exactly sure what you're picturing, but yeah. Something along those lines. As long as there is no quality reduction through re-encoding of JPEGs involved.

damian101 wrote:Why no BPG support?

Patents, probably.

+1 for MozJPEG

Guetzli is good at compression, but takes literally forever to encode with, neither supports progressive encoding nor color profiles. MozJPEG is about as good at compression and supports the other 2 things I mentioned while being a lot faster than Guetzli.

Couldn't this be ...

Well, the TGZ archive works very similarly (unpack, run xnview.sh) and you have to update the program yourself with Appimage, just like in Windows. There's no obvious choice IMO. Depends on what you want.

what is better? Flatpak, Appimage or Snapcraft?
Both Flatpak and Appimage are fine IMO. Problem with Snap is that the only (offical?) way to distribute them is the Ubuntu Snap Store unless you host your own. And again, the .deb release already works fine, but the .rpm one doesn't and the reason ...

Yes, the new x64 TGZ version 1.76 works again here when using the shell script. Thanks.

Bump. Any plans towards Flatpak (or something like it)? It's simple, really: http://flatpak.org/hello-world

The 64bit TGZ archive version launches on Fedora 26, but all the text is invisible. I can mouse select it, but it doesn't show up.

I have PNGs here that I'm trying to convert into JPGs. Some of the transparent areas are converted into white, others into a dark grey. I think there's actually the original background of the photo re-appearing.