XnView MP setup with XnView installed

[mrwul]

I am using the 'normal' XnView version and am considering to install XnView MP.
Have downloaded the files.

- Do I need to uninstall XnView ?
- will MP 'detect/adopt' the 'normal' XnView settings?

But above all, I donot wish to offend anybody in whatever way, but .. am just wondering,
why are all those enhancements not included in the standard XnView?
(i.e. why two products?)

Thanks!
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[m.Th.]

I am using the 'normal' XnView version and am considering to install XnView MP.
Have downloaded the files.

- Do I need to uninstall XnView ?

No

- will MP 'detect/adopt' the 'normal' XnView settings?

No. And more - the settings set are different. Yes, there is a common trunk but they are different.

But above all, I donot wish to offend anybody in whatever way, but .. am just wondering,
why are all those enhancements not included in the standard XnView?
(i.e. why two products?)

Thanks!
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XnViewMP is cross-platform and AFAIK (Pierre, please confirm) has a better internal architecture.

Any program, during its life cycle accumulates some design/implementation decisions which - as time passes by - became more or less harmful for the future of the program. That's why Pierre decided to make a new code-base using (among other things) a new GUI library (Qt) which is better in some areas than the small subset of the standard Windows library used in XnView.

[mrwul]

Thank you!

With some shame I have to confess that I thought that XnView MP (considering the version nbr) was some kind of 'add-on' to XnView created by a dedicated XnView user. Ahum...
Also because having two different products (the 'standard' and 'MP' version), well, frankly, I did not assume they were being developed by the same person(s).

Anyway, thanks again, I'll install XnView MP.
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