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[muggins]

http://kornelix.squarespace.com/fotoxx/

[Béèm]

Thank you for sharing this.
Have you used Xnview also?
If yes, could you make a brief positioning between the two?

[muggins]

Beem,

Being as graphically "challenged" as I am, I don't feel qualified to compare the apps. My primary purpose in uploading this app, and anything else, is to widen the pool of applications available for puppy users.

[Béèm]

I have seen indeed you are quite active of searching nice app's and making a pet out of them.
Thank you for this.

I might try fotox and comment here later.

[Béèm]

A bit confusing to download, but I managed to do it.

Biggest problem, the photos can't be displayed at their real size.
So smaller pictures are blurred.
Spoke a bit too early.
Was not very intuitive but I found that the mouse buttons had to be clicked several times.
But view/zoom isn't very easy.

The exif data isn't functioning.
I get a message that the exiv2 isn't found and that the exif is expired.

The tune feature isn't bad as it works on parts of the picture and not on the whole picture.

I have to look at the panorama feature.

I see no possibility to add text o exif data to the picture.

Animated gif's don't play.

So compared to Xnview fotox has that one interesting tune function.

And all of a sudden, fotox got kicked out of memory while browsing the pictures.

[MU]

here is another one, extract to /usr/bin , then type:
pho -v
or
pho -h

Usage for example:
pho -p /usr/share/backgrounds/*

You can see, but not edit exif-data (hit "i")

details:
http://www.shallowsky.com/software/pho/

Mark

[muggins]

Beem,

The attached .pet contains the exiv2 executable, and library, which fotox is looking for.

[muggins]

Following on from Beem's testing of fotox, above, I wasn't happy that if I ran it on the commandline, sometimes I was getting errors about fonts Thinking this was related to it's using acroread, as the default pdf-viewer, I've recompiled it to use gsview as the default. Now, at least, it doesn't generate these font errors.

If anyone downloaded this before, and is wondering why the size difference, it's because I initially included th fotox help .pdf file, which is over 1M.

[muggins]

updated to v0.36

[aragon]

New Version: 0.37

May also require exiv2 (see posts above).

pet ist without fotox-guide.pdf to save space. Find it at:

http://kornelix.squarespace.com/storage/fotox/fotox-guide.pdf (1.2 MB)

aragon

[muggins]

Hi Aragon,

I saw that you've just uploaded a new fotox version. I downloaded it to have a look. One minor thing is that the .desktop file doesn't have an icon set. Usually I just grab the fotox.png icon, rescale it to 32x32, and either copy, or symlink, this to /usr/share/pixmaps.

Also, I downloaded the fotox help .pdf, but fotox couldn't find it. I tried saving in /usr/local/share/fotox, /usr/share/fotox, /usr/share/docs/fotox, but all failed. Which directory should it be saved in?

The other thing I was curious about is the default pdf readers for fotox. The default viewer for older pups was gsview, but newer pupversions are using epdfview, but fotox source has it using evince, acroread, kpdf, xpdf & gpdf.

This is in the file zfuncs.cpp, down at line 2246. Since most pup users definitely don't use either evince, or gpdf, i usually change this section to read:

[Béèm]

As alpha 7 contains already the .36 version, I went to the kornelix site to find out what the .37 brings as improvement.
I didn't find something as release notes or the like.
Does someone know?

[muggins]

Beem,

from the changelog included with the sourcefile:

[gerry]

When I tried Dingo alpha 7, I asked on the Dingo thread if it has a print function, as I couldn't find it. Hope you don't mind me asking here- does Fotox have a print function? If so, how do i access it?

Gerry

[muggins]

Gerry,

I don't think fotox has any print functionality. Is this to print pics? Do you try using gqview, as wjaguar recommended?