If you have a 3d accelerated video card, gliv is pretty nice.... uses opengl to scale and display the image... and the scroll wheel on a mouse zooms in and out.
It also accepts multiple images from the command line, and a click of the mouse make it slide show them with a neat fade from one image to the next. Highly recommended for the Oooo and Ahhhh Factor if for nothing else ;) On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:22:37 -0800, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:29:39AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > On Friday 17 December 2004 11:15, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > > > > > I have a simple question: > > > Why xv is not any more supported by Debian? > > > > I have a simple answer: > > Because it's shareware. See http://www.trilon.com/xv/pricing.html for > > details. > > The fact that it's shareware has nothing to do with it. Or are you one of > the less-than-clued who thinks you can't pay for software? > > Debian no longer distributes xv because the license says you can't > distribute modified versions, which fails the DFSG. > > Not that you can't build it yourself... you can find the Potato source > package (which was -26) several places on the 'net, and build it locally. > It needs fixing... it wasn't being maintained very well and several of the > patches it needs don't apply correctly. It's also several official "John > Bradley" security patches behind. > > Random debs you find usually won't install in unstable as unstable no > longer has an xlibs6g package. > > > Basically, there are any number of functionality identical programs (ie > > 'display' from ImageMagick) that are Free and available through the normal > > Debian channels. > > There are very few image viewers that do everything xv does, all rolled > into one binary. I wish all software stood the test of time as well as xv > has. > > -- > Marc Wilson | The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | travellers pay the expense of it. -- Josh Billings > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
