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- ## Geeqie x.x ##
+ ## Geeqie 1.4 ##
## ##
- ## Copyright (C) 2008 - 2016 The Geeqie Team ##
+ ## Copyright (C) 2008 - 2017 The Geeqie Team ##
## Copyright (C) 1999 - 2006 John Ellis. ##
## ##
## Use at your own risk! ##
This is Geeqie, a successor of GQview.
+[](https://travis-ci.org/BestImageViewer/geeqie)
+
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.
+contact the GQview author and only maintainer.
+
+The Geeqie project will continue the development forward and maintain the existing code.
-Geeqie is currently considered stable. Please report any crash or odd behavior
-to the [mailing list](https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel)
-and/or to [Github](https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues)
+Geeqie is currently considered stable.
-For more info see: http://www.geeqie.org/
+Please send any questions, problems or suggestions to the [mailing list](mailto:geeqie@freelists.org) or
+open an issue on [Geeqie at GitHub](https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues).
-Please send any question or suggestions to geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net or
-open an issue on Github (https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues)
+Subscribe to the mailing list [here](https://www.freelists.org/list/geeqie).
+
+The project website is <http://www.geeqie.org/> and you will find the latest sources in the
+[Geeqie repository](http://geeqie.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=geeqie.git).
# README contents:
-* Requirements
-* Notes and changes for this release
-* Installation
* Description / Features
-* Documentation (keyboard shortcuts)
-* Editor command macros
-* Additional comments
-* Translation status
-* Credits
+* Downloading
+* Installation
+* Notes and changes for this release
+* Requirements
-## 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
+## Description / Features
- Note: GTK+3 is still somehow experimental. It is needed for some
- features but we have several complains about the GTK+3 usability.
+Geeqie is a graphics file viewer. Basic features:
- 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
+* Single click image viewing / navigation.
- exiv2 0.11
- www.exiv2.org
- for enhanced exif support
- enabled by default
- disable with configure option: --disable-exiv2
+* Zoom functions.
- lirc
- www.lirc.org
- for remote control support
- enabled by default
- disable with configure option: --disable-lirc
+* Thumbnails, with optional caching and .xvpics support.
- 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
+* Multiple file selection for move, copy, delete, rename, drag and drop.
- 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
+* Thumbnail preview of the destination for move, copy and rename functions.
- lua 5.1
- www.lua.org
- support for lua scripting
- enabled by default
- disable with configure option: --disable-lua
+* On-the-fly renaming for move and copy functions, with formatted and auto-rename features.
-## Notes and changes for this release [section:release_notes]
+* File grouping (an image having jpeg, RAW and xmp files will appear as a single entity).
-See NEWS file.
+* Selectable exif auto-rotation of images.
- 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
+* Single click file copy or move to pre-defined folders - with undo feature.
+* Drag and drop.
- Known bugs:
+* Collections.
- See the Geeqie Bug Tracker at https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues
+* support for stereoscopic images
+ * input: side-by-side (JPS) and MPO format
+ * output: single image, anaglyph, SBS, mirror, SBS half size (3DTV)
-## Installation
+* Viewing raster and vector images, in the following formats:
+3FR, ANI, APM, ARW, BMP, CR2, CRW, CUR, DNG, ERF, GIF, ICNS, ICO, JPE/JPEG/JPG, JPS, KDC, MEF, MPO, MOS, MRW, NEF, ORF, PEF, PTX, PBM/PGM/PNM/PPM, PNG, QIF/QTIF (QuickTime Image Format), RAF, RAW, RW2, SR2, SRF, SVG/SVGZ, TGA/TARGA, TIF/TIFF, WMF, XBM, XPM. Animated GIFs are supported.
- Compilation: ./autogen.sh ; make
- Show compile options: ./autogen.sh --help
- General install: make install
- Removal: make uninstall
+* Preview and thumbnails of video clips can be displayed. Clips can be run via a defined external program.
-## Description / Features
+* Images can be displayed singly in normal or fullscreen mode; static or slideshow mode; in sets of two or four per page for comparison; or as thumbnails of various sizes. Synchronised zoom when multi images are displayed.
+
+* Pan(orama) view displays image thumbnails in calendar, grid, folder and other layouts.
+* All available metadata and Exif/IPTC/XMP data can be displayed, as well as colour histograms and assigned tags, keywords and comments.
- Geeqie is a graphics file viewer. Basic features:
-
-- Single click image viewing / navigation.
-- Zoom functions.
-- Thumbnails, with optional caching and .xvpics support.
-- Multiple file selection for move, copy, delete, rename, drag and drop.
-- Drag and drop.
-- Slideshow.
-- Full screen.
-- Ability to open images in external editors (configurable).
-- Collections.
-- Comparison of images to find duplicates by name, size, date,
- dimensions, or image content similarity.
- - Rotation invariant detection
- - EXIF support.
- - support for stereoscopic images
- - input: side-by-side (JPS) and MPO format
- - output: single image, anaglyph, SBS, mirror, SBS half size (3DTV)
-
-## Credits [section:credits]
-
- Translations:
-
- Grzegorz Kowal <g_kowal@poczta.onet.pl>
- Zbigniew Chyla <cyba@gnome.pl>
- Emil Nowak <emil5@go2.pl>
- Wit Wilinski <wit.wilinski@gmail.com>
- Tomasz Golinski <tomaszg@math.uwb.edu.pl>
- for Polish translation
-
- Christopher R. Gabriel <cgabriel@pluto.linux.it>
- Di Maggio Salvatore <Salvatore.Dimaggio@bologna.marelli.it>
- Costantino <inverness1ATvirgilio.it>
- for Italian translation
-
- Sandokan <cortex@nextra.sk>
- Ivan Priesol <priesol@iris-sk.sk>
- Mgr. Peter Tuharsky <tuharsky@misbb.sk>
- for Slovak translation
-
- Rodrigo Sancho Senosiain <ruy_ikari@bigfoot.com>
- Ariel Fermani <the_end@bbs.frc.utn.edu.ar>
- for Spanish translation
-
- Laurent Monin <i18n@norz.org>
- Eric Lassauge <lassauge@users.sf.net>
- Jean-Pierre Pedron <jppedron@club-internet.fr>
- Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@atosorigin.com>
- Nicolas Boos <nicolas.boos@wanadoo.fr>
- Nicolas Bonifas <nicolas_bonifas@users.sf.net>
- for French translation
-
- Fâtih Demir <kabalak@gmx.net>
- for Turkish translation
-
- Kam Tik <kamtik@hongkong.com>
- Abel Cheung <deaddog@deaddog.ws>
- S.J. Luo <crystal@mickey.ee.nctu.edu.tw>
- Levin <zjlevin@hotmail.com>
- for Traditional Chinese (Big5) translation
+* Selectable image overlay display box - can contain any text or meta-data.
- Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org>
- Oleg Andrjushenko <oandr@itec.cn.ua>
- Michael Bravo <mbravo@tag-ltd.spb.ru>
- Sergey Pinaev <dfo@antex.ru>
- for Russian translation
-
- Guilherme M. Schroeder <slump@ieg.com.br>
- Vitor Fernandes <vitor_fernandes@SoftHome.net>
- Herval Ribeiro de Azevêdo <heraze@gmail.com>
- for Brazilian Portuguese translation
+* Panels can be docked or floating.
- Shingo Akagaki <akagaki@ece.numazu-ct.ac.jp>
- Yuuki Ninomiya <gm@debian.or.jp>
- Sato Satoru <ss@gnome.gr.jp>
- Takeshi AIHANA <aihana@gnome.gr.jp>
- for Japanese translation
+* Tags, both predefined and custom, can be assigned to images, and stored either as image metadata (where the file format allows), sidecar files, or in directory metadata files. Keywords and comments can also be assigned.
- Matthias Warkus <mawarkus@t-online.de>
- Thomas Klausner <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
- Danny Milosavljevic <danny_milo@yahoo.com>
- Ronny Steiner <Post@SIRSteiner.de>
- Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>
- for German translation
+* Basic editing in the form of lossless 90/180-degree rotation and flipping is supported; external programs such as GIMP, Inkscape, and custom scripts using ImageMagick can be linked to allow further processing.
- Matej Erman <matej.erman@guest.arnes.si>
- for Slovene translation
+* Advanced searching is available using criteria such as filename, file size, age, image dimensions, similarity to a specified image, or by keywords or comments. If images have GPS coordinates embedded, you may also search for images within a radius of a geographical point.
- MÃtyÃs Tibor <templar@tempi.scene.hu>
- Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu>
- Sári Gábor <saga@externet.hu>
- for Hungarian translation
+* Geeqie supports applying the colour profile embedded in an image along with the system monitor profile (or a user-specified monitor profile).
- Wu Yulun <migr@operamail.com>
- Charles Wang <charlesw1234cn@yahoo.com.cn>
- for simplified Chinese translation
+* Geeqie sessions can be remotely controlled from external software, so it can be used as an image-viewer component of a bigger application.
- H.J.Visser <H.J.Visser@harrie.mine.nu>
- Tino Meinen <a.t.meinen@chello.nl>
- for Dutch translation
+* Geeqie includes a 'find duplicates' tool which can compare images using a variety of criteria (filename, file size, visual similarity, dimensions, image content), either within a single folder or between two folders. Finding duplicates ignoring the rotation of images is also supported.
+* Images may be given a rating value (also known as a "star rating").
- Lauri Nurmi <lanurmi@iki.fi>
- for Finnish translation
+* Maps from [OpenStreetMap](http://www.openstreetmap.org) may be displayed in a side panel. If an image has GPS coordinates embedded, its position will be displayed on the map - if Image Direction is encoded, that will be displayed also. If an image does not have embedded GPS coordinates, it may be dragged-and-dropped onto the map to encode its position.
- Ilmar Kerm <ikerm@hot.ee>
- for Estonian translation
+## Downloading
- Volodymyr M. Lisivka <lvm@mystery.lviv.net>
- for Ukrainian translation
+Geeqie is available as a package with some distributions.
- Birger Langkjer <birger.langkjer@image.dk>
- for Danish translation
+The source tar of the latest formal release may be downloaded: <http://geeqie.org/geeqie-1.3.tar.xz>
- Torgeir Ness Sundli <torgeir@mp3bil.no>
- for Norwegian translation
+However Geeqie is stable, and you may download the latest version (if you have installed git) from here:
- Jan Raska <jan.raska@tiscali.cz>
- Michal Bukovjan <bukm@centrum.cz>
- for Czech translation
+Either: `git clone git://www.geeqie.org/geeqie.git`
- Phanumas Thanyaboon <maskung@hotmail.com>
- for Thai translation
+Or: `git clone http://www.geeqie.org/git/geeqie.git`
- Harald Ersch <hersch@romatsa.ro>
- for Romanian translation
- pclouds <pclouds@vnlinux.org>
- for Vietnamese translation
+## Installation
+
+List compile options: `./autogen.sh --help`
+
+Common options:
+`./autogen.sh`,
+
+Compilation: `./autogen.sh [options]; make -j<no. of cpu cores> `
+
+Install: `[sudo] make install`
+
+Removal: `[sudo] make uninstall`
+
+#### Note:
+The zip and gzip files at geeqie.org and GitHub contain only the sources - they cannot, by themselves, be used to install Geeqie.
- Tedi Heriyanto <tedi_h@gmx.net>
- for Indonesian translation
+It is recommended to always use `git clone git://www.geeqie.org/geeqie.git` to download Geeqie. After installing Geeqie you may delete the folder you have cloned Geeqie into.
- Vladimir Petrov <vladux@mail.bg>
- for Bulgarian translation
+However if you leave the folder intact, whenever new features or patches are available, execute:
- Hans Öfverbeck <hans.ofverbeck@home.se>
- for Swedish translation
+`git pull; sudo make uninstall; sudo make maintainer-clean; ./autogen.sh; make -j<no. of cpu cores>; sudo make install`
- Youssef Assad <youssef@devcabal.org>
- for Arabic translation
+Only the changed sources are downloaded, which makes this a quick operation.
- catux.org <mecatxis@ya.com>
- for Catalan translation
+Your configuration file, history file and desktop files are not affected by this process.
- Hyun-Jin Moon <moonhyunjin@gmail.com
- for Korean translation
- Pavel Piatruk <berserker@neolocation.com>
- for Belarusian translation
- Piarres Beobide <pi@beobide.net>
- for Basque translation
+## Notes and changes for the latest release
+
+See the NEWS file in the installation folder, or [Geeqie News at GitHub](https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/blob/master/NEWS)
+
+And either the ChangeLog file or [Geeqie ChangeLog](http://geeqie.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=geeqie.git;a=shortlog)
+
+
+## Requirements
+
+### Required libraries:
+ GTK+ 2.20
+ enabled by default even when GTK+3 libraries are found.
+ disable with configure option: --enable-gtk3
+ optional items map display and GPU acceleration are not available
+ with GTK2
+ or
+ GTK+ 3.00
+ www.gtk.org
+ disabled by default when GTK+2 libraries are found.
+ enable with configure option: --enable-gtk3
+
+ Note: GTK+3 is still somehow experimental. It is needed for some
+ features but we have several complains about the GTK+3 usability.
- Antonio C. Codazzi <f_sophia@libero.it>
- for Esperanto translation
+ 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.
- Nikos Papadopoulos
- for Greek translation
+### 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
- Fixes, additions, and patches:
+ exiv2 0.11
+ www.exiv2.org
+ for enhanced exif support
+ enabled by default
+ disable with configure option: --disable-exiv2
- Eric Swalens
- Quy Tonthat
- for initial Exif support.
+ lirc
+ www.lirc.org
+ for remote control support
+ enabled by default
+ disable with configure option: --disable-lirc
- Daniel M. German <dmgerman at uvic.ca>
- for Canon raw image support.
+ libchamplain-gtk 0.12
+ libchamplain 0.12
+ libclutter 1.0
+ wiki.gnome.org/Projects/libchamplain
+ for map display
+ enabled by default
+ disable with configure option: --disable-map
- Lars Ellenberg
- for Fujifilm raw image support.
+ libclutter 1.0
+ www.clutter-project.org
+ for GPU acceleration (a check-box on Preferences/Image must also be ticked)
+ enabled by default
+ disable with configure option: --disable-gpu-accel
+ explicitly disabling will also disable the map feature
- Diederen Damien <D.Diederen@student.ulg.ac.be>
- for .xvpics thumbnail reading support.
+ lua 5.1
+ www.lua.org
+ support for lua scripting
+ enabled by default
+ disable with configure option: --disable-lua
- Nick Rusnov <nick@grawk.net>
- Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
- for man page.
+ librsvg2-common
+ for displaying .svg images
- Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org>
- for sort by number, misc. improvements.
+ libwmf0.2-7-gtk
+ for displaying .wmf images
- Jörg Mensmann <joerg.mensmann@gmx.de>
- for Xinerama support patch.
+ (see also "Additional pixbuf loaders" in the References section of the Help file)
- Vadim Shliakhov
- for miscellaneous fixes.
+ awk
+ when running Geeqie, to use the geo-decode function
- Uwe Ohse
- for Exif enhancements, histogram and other patches
+ markdown
+ when compiling Geeqie, to create this file in html format
- Timo Horstschäfer
- for customizable fullscreen overlay
+ libffmpegthumbnailer 2.0.0
+ https://github.com/dirkvdb/ffmpegthumbnailer
+ for thumbnailing camera video clips
+ disable with configure option: --disable-ffmpegthumbnailer
- Michael Mokeev
- for print related enhancements
+### Code hackers:
- Carles Pina i Estany
- for copy path to clipboard patch
+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
- Kjell Morgenstern
- for random slide show speedup patch
+### Known bugs:
- And...
- Thanks to the users for finding Geeqie useful.
+See the Geeqie Bug Tracker at <https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues>
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