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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: wonders of open source [showimage ]
From:       "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas () telefonica ! net>
Date:       2023-07-27 11:41:41
Message-ID: 35968213-101f-d830-f238-700b2f4a7da0 () telefonica ! net
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On 2023-07-27 13:37, Daniel Bauer wrote:
> Sometimes wonderful things happen and I want to share this with you.
> 
> User gumb hinted me on this list to showimage as the successor of the 
> abandoned kuickshow, that I urgently need for my daily work. But 
> showimage lacked a feature I need [resizing window without zooming 
> image]. gump provided me the email address of the developper, Martin 
> Koller.
> 
> Last Sunday I wrote an email to Martin describing my problem.
> 
> Tuesday he sent me an executable with a new version and asked me to test 
> it!
> 
> Already this version did what I needed. I sent my report and added some 
> suggestions of features he'd maybe liked to add for future releases.
> 
> The same evening I received a new version that included those additional 
> features (settings to turn off hover-menu, change background color; 
> change brightness/contrast/gamma).
> 
> Now I have a perfect showimage that is even better than kuickshow was 
> (it also can display RAW files, Filename is showed better [at the 
> beginning of the title, so it remains readable in small windows], mouse 
> wheel can be used for zooming, all windows can be closed with one 
> click/shortcut, brightness/contrast/gamma-changes can be undone...)
> 
> Honestly I didn't expect such a fast and perfect solution for my problem 
> and I know that even in open-source one cannot expect this. But it shows 
> how helpful this mailing list often is, and that in the linux world 
> things can happen that are absolutely unthinkable in Win/Mac surroundings.
> 
> So sorry for taking your time for my sentimental post, but I just had to 
> share my gratefulness!


That's amazing!  :-))

Now we just need to get this on the distro repositories. I think there 
is a photography or graphics repo, maybe we can suggest it to them? (how 
to find them?)

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)


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