Re: gqview removed from rawhide

[Jim Cornette <music-cornette sbcglobal net>]

Sindre Pedersen Bjordal wrote:

> fre, 13.08.2004 kl. 05.59 skrev Jim Cornette:
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> > Christopher Aillon wrote:
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> > > Just a note that gqview just got removed from rawhide.  It has the 
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> > Out of curiosity, what made this program and others fall by the wayside? 
> > Are there usage reports gathered somewhere regarding what programs are 
> > favored by users? Do people just get tired of maintaining one, then push 
> > users to a lesser program? (Mutt vs. Pine or similar changes)
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> > Jim
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> While I don't fully get it myself, there's this: 
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> http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/desktop/defaults.html 
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Thanks for the link.

Out of ideas tossed around about gthumb, aog and gqview. I think that 
combining the most rational features and the most used features to 
create a better browser sounds like the best idea.
Gthumb does take a long time for thumbnail generation. I remember using 
gqview with thumnail generation in the right pane and it did not seem 
like it consumed very much time.

Jim

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