On 7/7/19 11:51 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 11:25:47AM +0200, Wolfgang Silbermayr wrote: >> Package name: viu >> Upstream Author: Atanas Yankov <atanas.yanko...@gmail.com> >> URL: https://github.com/atanunq/viu >> Description: >> viu is a small command-line application to view images from the terminal >> written in Rust. It uses unicode lower half blocks to fit 2 pixels into >> a single cell by adjusting foreground and background colors accordingly. > > Hi! > This looks exactly as what "catimg" does -- is there are any reason to > prefer viu over catimg?
[...] > Thus: is there anything viu does better than the above tools? In fact, catimg is new to me. I did a quick test, and it looks quite good. I follow what is happening in the Rust crates ecosystem, so I stumbled over viu when it got published, and thought it would be great to have this tool packaged. A quick test showed nearly identical output when scaled to the same size (with minimal difference in colors, I assume due to downscaling). What I find a bit inconvenient is that catimg defaults to the full terminal width whereas viu takes both height and width of the terminal into account. Do you think it's a disadvantage to have some similar command-line tools packaged where some people would prefer one and some the other? Especially with the consideration that - at least in my experience - rust packages require very low amount of work for packaging and maintenance? Wolfgang.
