Various discussion boards for XnView and related products
https://newsgroup.xnview.com/
Why do so many people simply not understand that this is not an option and that nobody needs to justify anything if it is not an option for him? Every software is its author's property and there are dozens of open source image viewers, please do yourself a pleasure and use one of them if you do not like XnView's development model since asking for open source does not accelerate anything. The only thing that decides when the next version will be there is the author's time. You do not have to wait and XnView does not need to imitate something that is already there.Anonymous wrote:Flame away but if this was open source I wouldn't have to wait.
Thank you very much.Anonymous wrote:Why do so many people simply not understand that this is not an option and that nobody needs to justify anything if it is not an option for him? Every software is its author's property and there are dozens of open source image viewers, please do yourself a pleasure and use one of them if you do not like XnView's development model since asking for open source does not accelerate anything. The only thing that decides when the next version will be there is the author's time. You do not have to wait and XnView does not need to imitate something that is already there.Anonymous wrote:Flame away but if this was open source I wouldn't have to wait.
@Pierre: Please be assured that there are many users of the Linux version that do not always try to put pressure towards open source and that are very satisfied with your software
- although it uses Motif
- although the last version is from 2004
- although it is not open source
- although it has an annoying full screen bug
- although it is neither a GNOME nor a KDE application
simply
- because it handles more than the usual BMP/TIFF/PNG/JPEG/XPM
- because it is small
- because it is fast
- because it has few dependencies
- because it just works™.
Thanks for this great work, I appreciate it very much, I am really looking forward to the next version and until then I will use version 1.68.1 because I am very satisfied with it. Thank you very much!
This is great. May I help you a tiny little bit with the RPM packaging?xnview wrote:I'll release a 1.70 in middle of september.
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#
# spec file for package XnView (Version 1.68.1)
#
# This file and all modifications and additions to the pristine
# package are under the same license as the package itself.
#
%define _prefix /usr
Name: XnView
License: Freeware
Group: Productivity/Graphics/Viewers
Summary: Efficient multimedia viewer, browser and converter
Summary(fr): ...enter French summary here, if desired...
Summary(de): ...enter German summary here, if desired...
Version: 1.68.1
Release: 0
URL: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/
Source0: XnView-x86-unknown-linux2.x-static.tgz
Source1: xnview.png
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
BuildArch: i386
%description
XnView is a utility for viewing and converting graphic files. XnView is
provided as Freeware for private non-commercial or educational use.
Authors:
--------
Pierre-Emmanuel Gougelet <pierre.g@wanadoo.fr>
%description -l fr
...enter French description here, if desired...
%description -l de
...enter German description here, if desired...
%prep
%setup -n XnView-1.68-x86-unknown-linux2.x-static
%build
for i in *.txt ; do
iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t UTF-8 $i > $i.tmp && mv $i.tmp $i
done
%install
rm -rf %{buildroot}
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/bin
cp bin/* %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/bin
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib
cp lib/libformat.so.4.16 %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib
ln -s libformat.so.4.16 %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib/libformat.so
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/share/man/man1
cp man/* %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/share/man/man1
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/share/pixmaps
cp %{SOURCE1} %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/share/pixmaps
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/share/XnView/Filters
cat << EOF > %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/share/XnView/Filters/udf-def.dat
# XnView UDF v1.0 (do not edit)
average 3 | 3 1 0 | 1x9
average 5 | 5 25 0 | 1x25
blur | 3 16 0 | 1 2 1 2 4 2 1 2 1
emboss | 3 1 128 | -1 0x7 -1
EOF
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/share/applications
cat << EOF > %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/share/applications/xnview.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=XnView
GenericName=Image Viewer
Type=Application
Exec=xnview
Icon=xnview.png
Categories=Application;Graphics;Viewer;
EOF
%clean
rm -rf %{buildroot}
%post
/sbin/ldconfig
%postun
/sbin/ldconfig
%files
%defattr(-,root,root)
%doc *.txt app-defaults/XnView.ad
%{_prefix}/bin/nconvert
%{_prefix}/bin/nview
%{_prefix}/bin/xnview
%{_prefix}/lib/libformat.so
%{_prefix}/lib/libformat.so.4.16
%{_prefix}/share/XnView
%{_prefix}/share/applications/xnview.desktop
%{_prefix}/share/pixmaps/xnview.png
%{_prefix}/share/man/man1/nview.1*
%{_prefix}/share/man/man1/xnview.1*
%changelog -n XnView
* Tue Aug 23 2005 - root@localhost
- initial package
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