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gimmage: the gtkmm image viewer |
Welcome
to the website dedicated to my feeble attempt at building my own image
viewer. It's written in C++ using gtkmm and borrows some fuctionality
from libcurl. It is perfect for command line usage as it accepts
directories and image filenames as arguments. It has an in-application
file browser which enables the user to select and drag images and
directories into the image viewing area in order to have them
displayed. It can be integrated with filemanagers by adding it to the
"open with..." context menu for directories and images. Having a
minimalist interface, it is perfect for visualising a large number of
consecutive images at a reasonable size. It aims to be fully
keyboard-operable.
See below for screenshots
and requirements.I hope you like it! Any comments or suggestions can be sent to
zoombat _!!N!O!S!P!A!M!!_A!T runbox |dot| com
The project summary.
News items for gimmage can now be found exclusively on the gimmage berlios page.
The Forums.
Downloads.
The Bug Tracker.
- gtkmm and its dependencies
- cairomm and its dependencies
- libcurl / curl and its dependencies
- libmagic and its dependencies (sometimes called file)
I've compiled it on gentoo and ubuntu feisty without problems. If you try it out on another distro, please send me an e-mail so I can add it to the list.
Gimmage is available in gentoo, T2, archlinux, vine-linux, frugalware and freebsd.
- no printing support yet (next on the todo list)
- zooming uses a very innefficient method and it looks rather strange when the image is recentered after zooming in or out
- the program will probably not be able to open files with non-european characters in their filename
- David Raison for being a good friend and for pointing out that proper filetype checking is not at all difficult to do! Thanks for the ebuild!
- Ramax Lo for fixing drag scrolling.
- Linux Master Jedi for providing a T2 project file for gimmage.
- Eric Davis for lobbying for the inclusion of a "quit" button and his, unfortunately lost, work on integrating autotools support.
- Ralph Wabel for pointing out how useful it is when gimmage scans the directory of an image when only one image is opened by the user.
- Jaap Karssenberg for helping with the Makefile and indicating how to detect file selections in the filechooser.
- Chris Peterman for clarifying some properties of the .deb package format.
- Scott Horrowitz for suggesting that the zoom-in/zoom-out buttons should be reversed.
- Chris Peterman for suggesting some improvements to the ubuntu package.
- Will Rea for adding gimmage to the archlinux distribution.
- The gimmage icon has been made from the preferences-system-windows.svg icon from the gnome standard icon set. The mountain and lake image is a vectorised photo, the original of which is by mitrix32 and can be found at kde-look.org. In accordance with the gpl, the source image.
