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  ##              Copyright (C) 2008 - 2017 The Geeqie Team        ##
  ##              Copyright (C) 1999 - 2006 John Ellis.            ##
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  ##                      Use at your own risk!                    ##
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  ##  This software released under the GNU General Public License. ##
  ##       Please read the COPYING file for more information.      ##
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This is Geeqie, a successor of GQview.

Build Status

Geeqie has been forked from GQview project, because it was not possible to contact GQview author and the only maintainer. Geeqie projects goal is to move the development forward and also integrate the existing patches.

Geeqie is currently considered stable. Please report any crash or odd behavior to the mailing list and/or to Github

For more info see: http://www.geeqie.org/

Please send any question or suggestions to geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net or open an issue on https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues

README contents:

Requirements

Required libraries:

GTK+ 3.00
    www.gtk.org
    enabled by default
    disable with configure option: --disable-gtk3
or
GTK+ 2.20
    disabled by default when GTK+3 libraries are found.
    enable with configure option: --disable-gtk3
    optional items map display and GPU acceleration are not available
    with GTK2

    Note: GTK+3 is still somehow experimental. It is needed for some
    features but we have several complains about the GTK+3 usability.

    So if you need a stable version, you are advised to compile it
    with GTK+2. If you want to play with the cool new features, use
    GTK+3.

Optional libraries:

lcms2 2.0
or
lcms 1.14
    www.littlecms.com
    for color management support
    enabled by default
    disable with configure option: --disable-lcms

exiv2 0.11
    www.exiv2.org
    for enhanced exif support
    enabled by default
    disable with configure option: --disable-exiv2

lirc
    www.lirc.org
    for remote control support
    enabled by default
    disable with configure option: --disable-lirc

libchamplain-gtk 0.12
libchamplain 0.12
libclutter 1.0
    wiki.gnome.org/Projects/libchamplain
    for map display
    disabled by default
    enable with configure option: --enable-map
    enabling will also enable GPU acceleration

libclutter 1.0
    www.clutter-project.org
    for GPU acceleration (a check-box on Preferences/Image must also be ticked)
    disabled by default
    enable with configure option: --enable-gpu-accel
    explicitly disabling will also disable the map feature

lua 5.1
    www.lua.org
    support for lua scripting
    enabled by default
    disable with configure option: --disable-lua

awk
    when running Geeqie, to use the geo-decode function

markdown
    when compiling Geeqie, to create this file in html format

Notes and changes for this release [section:release_notes]

See NEWS file.

Code hackers:

If you plan on making any major changes to the code that will be offered for inclusion to the main source, please contact us first - so that we can avoid duplication of effort. The Geeqie Team

Known bugs:

See the Geeqie Bug Tracker at https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues

Downloading

Geeqie is available as a package with some distributions.

The source tar of the latest release may be downloaded: http://geeqie.org/geeqie-1.3.tar.xz

To download the sources of the latest commits you must have installed git:

Either: git clone git://www.geeqie.org/geeqie.git

Or: git clone http://www.geeqie.org/git/geeqie.git

Installation

Update secondary help documents (optional - requires use of git): ./gen_changelog.sh ; markdown README.md > README.html

Show compile options: ./autogen.sh --help

Compilation: ./autogen.sh ; make

General install: [sudo] make install

Removal: [sudo] make uninstall

Description / Features

Geeqie is a graphics file viewer. Basic features: