gqview removed from rawhide

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Fri Aug 13 13:54:19 UTC 2004


On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 02:38:55PM -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
 > On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 14:30 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
 > > Just a note that gqview just got removed from rawhide.  It has the same 
 > > mission statement as gthumb and uses raster code internally.  Yes, I 
 > > know there are people who use it still.  I suggest this can move over to 
 > > Fedora Extras if people really want it.
 > 
 > It needs to be moved to extras at least.  I hate gThumb's interface.
 >   For browsing a bunch of graphics gqView is much more efficient.

Seconded.  It's very noticable on thumbnail generation. Browsing
a dir full of photos takes noticably longer in gthumb as it draws
each thumbnail one by one.  In gqview I don't think I've ever had
to wait for the app to catch up with what I just did.

		Dave





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