Re: [dev] [sxiv] Discussion

From: Silvan Jegen <s.jegen_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 21:44:43 +0200

On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 09:23:19PM +0200, FRIGN wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 21:19:14 +0200
> Silvan Jegen <s.jegen_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > If the conversion tools are already written (I wasn't sure this was
> > the case already) then all that's left to simplify sxiv would be to
> > make it speak only farbfeld and then to wrap it up in a shell script
> > (?) that converts all arguments to temporary farbfeld files and passes
> > them to sxiv.
>
> Yes exactly. That's how sent[0] does image handling and it works very
> well!

Sounds good! I would be interested to see if the farbfeld conversion is
fast enough for the image viewer use case.

Making sxiv speak farbfeld shouldn't be too hard if somebody is interested
in a relatively low-hanging fruit *winkwinknudgenudge*...


> [0]: http://tools.suckless.org/sent/

I adjusted the farbfeld link because it was broken.


Cheers,

Silvan
Received on Tue Aug 09 2016 - 21:44:43 CEST

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