XnView - Image Viewer

[Rog131]

Qt-Apps.Org >> XnView MP

XnView MP - Qt Graphic Viewer


Description:
XnView is a graphic viewer/organizer/converter, it supports more than 400 formats in reading, ...

On http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=16416 you'll find windows, linux & macos version


License: Proprietary License

Qt-Apps.Org/XnView MP has a Ubuntu download. Downloading a XnViewMP-linux.tgz (10.3M) to the /media/sdc6/tmp_XnViewMP/.

Unpacking / Installing it with a command:

sudo tar -C /usr/local -xvf /media/sdc6/tmp_XnViewMP/XnViewMP-linux.tgz

This will unpack XnView to the /usr/local/XnViewMP.

Check:

ls /usr/local

bin etc games include lib man sbin share src XnViewMP

Making a desktop file > Topic: GtoK: .desktop files

XnViewMp.desktop:

# KDE Config File
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Exec=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/XnViewMP && export LD_LIBRARY_PATH && /usr/local/XnViewMP/xnview
Icon=camera
Terminal=false
Name=XnView
MimeType=image/gif;image/jpeg;image/x-bmp;image/png;image/tiff;image/x-targa;image/x-xcf-gimp
Categories=Qt;KDE;Application;Graphics;Viewer;

Comment=Image Viewer

Dropping it:

KDE 3.5 (Gutsy): /usr/share/applications/kde/

KDE 4 (Jaunty): /usr/share/applications/


After that, XnView will start:

KDE 3.5 (Gutsy): K > Graphics > XnView

KDE 4 (Jaunty): K > Applications > Graphics > XnView


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[Snowhog]

Re: XnView - Image Viewer

Works in II as well. Cool. 8)

XnView is a truly great program.

[BigAl-sa]

Re: XnView - Image Viewer

Thanks for the recipe, worked like a charm.

I did get this warning though:

ME@PC:/usr/share/applications$ kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4                       
<unknown program name>(6470)/ KStartupInfo::createNewStartupId: creating:&#160; "PC;1230043473;254030;6470_TIME0" : "unnamed app"
kbuildsycoca4 running...&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-ME" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
kbuildsycoca4(6501) kdemain: Reusing existing ksycoca
kbuildsycoca4(6501) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/usr/share/applications/XnViewMp.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).

Just put a semicolon after 'x-xcf-gimp' (the only place where it seemed like it could use one), and kbuildsycoca was happy.

One thing that everyone seems to forget is that XnView reads RAW files AND it can display a fair amount of the EXIF.

[Rog131]

Re: XnView - Image Viewer

Just put a semicolon after 'x-xcf-gimp' (the only place where it seemed like it could use one), and kbuildsycoca was happy.

If it working, then it is the correct syntax


Hmm - i am lazy so i was using the ksquirrel.desktop /1/ as template. It doesn't have semicolon but the Gwenview has - hmm ?


That desktop file is a skeleton version:
- about (Info button) XnView tells: reading 465, writing 62 formats
- Registering MIME Types:

The MimeType key is used to indicate the MIME Types that an application knows how to handle. It is expected that for some applications this list could become long.

=> XnView will open those 465 formats but there are only 7 formats that will offer option: " Open With XnView" at the file manager (you could add more formats...).



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[kln]

Re: XnView - Image Viewer

Is XnView stable and conflict-free under Kubuntu Intrepid 8.10 with KDE 4.2.0 ?
is there any tweak to do during the install, dependency problems, other apps to uninstall, well potential problems likely to happen ?

[Rog131]

Re: XnView - Image Viewer

is there any tweak to do during the install, dependency problems, other apps to uninstall, well potential problems likely to happen ?

About dependencis/conflicts

The XnView is a pure (static) Qt application, it doesn't need the KDE and it is compiled with the Qt-libraries build in.


Installation

The XnView is "run ready". Just unpack the tar archive. The only information that the application need is the path to the libraries. That's why i 'm using:

Exec=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/XnViewMP && export LD_LIBRARY_PATH && /usr/local/XnViewMP/xnview

at the XnViewMp.desktop.

[kln]

Re: XnView - Image Viewer

Thank you. It works.
It does have some features I miss.
I change most shortcuts but they work only in Browse mode. In View mode, the old shortcuts (not shown anymore in Settings) are still working. But I'll look around another time to find if those issues have been solved.