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Linux-Announce Digest #495
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Linux-Announce Digest #495, Volume #4 Sat, 2 Aug 2003 19:13:02 EDT
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FOSET workshop on GNU/Linux (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
zgv 5.7 - svgalib picture viewer with thumbnail-based file selector (Russell Marks)
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: FOSET workshop on GNU/Linux (fwd)
Date: 2 Aug 2003 08:45:08 GMT
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FLOSSToday reports on Free/Libre and Open Source Initiatives in India. FN
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> Prof Nandini Mukherjee writes in as below :
>
>
> Forum of Scientists, Engineers and Technologists (FOSET), Jadavpur
> University subcentre will be organising a workshop on "Linux as a
> platform for e-governance" on 16th August 2003 at 3 pm. We request your
> kind participation in the workshop.
>
> Please also communicate this to other people who may be interested to
> attend. Kindly let us know if there is any specific aspect you want to
> be discussed in the workshop.
>
> The venue and the detail program will be communicated shortly.
>
> With regards,
>
> Nandini Mukherjee
> (CSE Dept. JU)
> on behalf of FOSET, JU Subcentre
>
>
>
> reports on the workshop will be duly posted
> -sankarshan
>
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From: Russell Marks <russell.marks@ntlworld.com>
Subject: zgv 5.7 - svgalib picture viewer with thumbnail-based file selector
Date: 2 Aug 2003 12:30:04 GMT
zgv is an svgalib picture viewer with a thumbnail-based file selector.
Most file formats are supported, and the thumbnails used are
compatible with xv, xzgv, and the Gimp. It can also be used with `zgv
file(s)', to effectively bypass the file selector.
zgv's homepage is here:
http://www.svgalib.org/rus/zgv/
You can also download it from ibiblio:
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/viewers/svga/zgv-5.7.tar.gz
Here's the changes relative to the previous version (from NEWS):
** New features
Added support for display backends other than svgalib; currently SDL
is supported. (There are still problems with this - e.g. graphical
glitches with dialog boxes, and broken GIF animation - but it seems to
be mostly working.) Alternative backends are by definition never going
to be *better* than native svgalib, but if you somehow can't use
svgalib then at least this gives you a way of running zgv. Note that
you have to compile a separate zgv executable for each backend, and
only the svgalib one is compiled by default.
New `--auto-mode-fit-diff' option, allows you to specify a pixel
width/height to be disregarded when zgv picks a mode to use and
auto-mode-fit is enabled. So e.g. a 330x250 image would be shown in
320x240 mode if auto-mode-fit-diff is 10. Thanks to Dimitar Zhekov for
this.
** Bugfixes
32-bit modes can now be specified on the command-line (they couldn't
previously). Thanks to "kscott" for spotting this one.
Fixed mouse cursor appearance in 32-bit modes. Thanks to Dimitar
Zhekov for the patch.
No longer sets background colour to black for 1-bit mono PNG files,
where this sometimes caused problems. Thanks to Morten Bo Johansen for
spotting this.
** Other changes
Restored documentation for `-r', `-s', and `-w' options, which was
mistakenly dropped when I added long-option support.
-Rus.
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