Can XnView MP have a little weight watchers session ?

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rmfx
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Can XnView MP have a little weight watchers session ?

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Hi,
First of all, congrats to the dev of this software, it's really the best in class for image viewers.

However, I noticed that XnView MP is now over 250MB, which is quite heavy for an image viewer software.
I really like the software but it would be nice if it could be made a little bit lighter so it's faster and using less disk space.
Do we really need the embedded website engine for screenshots and video codec since nobody use it as a video player by example ?

When I dug in the binaries, I could see a lot of duplicated dependencies, especially in the Qt toolkit, crossed versions of some apis like the ffmpeg ones and more stuff feeling a bit temporary type. I think some clean up and optimizations to be made here. Not to mention that a better consistency in naming convention across folders and files could be done too.

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Re: Can XnView MP have a little weight watchers session ?

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rmfx wrote: Wed Jan 27, 2021 6:13 pm When I dug in the binaries, I could see a lot of duplicated dependencies, especially in the Qt toolkit, crossed versions of some apis like the ffmpeg ones and more stuff feeling a bit temporary type. I think some clean up and optimizations to be made here. Not to mention that a better consistency in naming convention across folders and files could be done too.
where do you have duplicate dependencies?
Pierre.
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