Announcing Katachi 0.1

Over the last few months I've been hacking on (yet another) image viewer for GTK+, using the hot new GVFS library (go Alex!) for asynchronous file handling and GtkImageView because I'm lazy.

It's got a pretty lean interface at the moment and is fairly fast in use. My goal is to use it on my Zaurus for reviewing images from a CF card in the field, so performance is quite important to me. As the primary users are photographers, filenames are not shown in the interface (just thumbnails). There is a lot of work left to do, but I've used 0.1 for some time now.

The source is being developed in a Bazaar branch at http://burtonini.com/bzr/katachi. I've just tagged a 0.1 release, a tarball of which is here. You'll need to build GVFS from git, and GtkImageView from svn, sorry. :)

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20:50 Sunday, 22 Jul 2007 [#] [computers] (6 comments)

Posted by Colin at Sun Jul 22 22:43:07 2007:
I'd love to see a quick image viewer with RAW support. Ideally with pre-buffering the next image and keeping the previous image, so that browsing and especially comparing two photos is quick. I haven't found anything coming close yet.
Posted by Ross at Sun Jul 22 22:53:09 2007:
Currently Katachi doesn't support RAW, as I generally shoot in RAW+JPEG (it hides RAW files explicitly).

It does cache the decoded images in memory so that switching between images once they've been viewed is instant.

My next major feature will be marking of images as favourite (get a star) or "hide" (remove from the list, but not from disk) so that it is easy to review image collections.
Posted by Colin at Sun Jul 22 22:57:56 2007:
Well, if you ever add RAW support, be sure to announce it widely :) I can't imagine I'm the only one who would like this.
Posted by Albert at Sun Jul 22 23:33:13 2007:
What about the mandatory screenshot? ;-)
Posted by Geminitojanus at Mon Jul 23 01:17:48 2007:
Think you could link us to all of the repos necessary to build this? This might be very similar to something I'm in the beginning stages of building, might be interesting to help on this instead.
Posted by Tommi at Mon Jul 23 11:13:25 2007:
Hmm, I think you need to add more version control systems to your project. Three is clearly not sufficient :-P

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