Oops! Done it again again.
Simon Elliott wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of Irfanview but I fail to see what features you miss from it when running Linux. Also it's fugly.. The icons look like they were made in the 90s. :/
Just about everything - the 'adjust colours' pane with the slidey red, green and blue density adjustors, brightness, gamma correction, saturation, along with its two comparative thumbnails, the 'apply to original' facility, and the lovely jpeg percentage saturation pane which appears when you choose 'save as', and that's just *ONE* function from the drop-down menu under 'Image'
The list of things bundled in the program is just too long to deal with in one emu, but I haven't found any similar program, let alone one I like.
With the size of modern HDDs it's well worth having a separate Windows partition just for Irfanview IMO. And with a sawn-off version, I don't think there's much to be gained from running programs in Wine. I looked at Virtual box, VM Ware and others, and I see little advantage running those when today's boxen are so fast, and AFAICS there's little or no advantage in space-saving with the latter two.
Unless - will VB or VM play nicely with CP/M?
The only killer thing I can think it does is the batch file conversion and rename stuff but there are extremely powerful command line linux tools out there to do the same jobs.
Prolly - but I seldom use those anyway. I do like the facility where you can reduce the size of the pics as well as the content, and import a series into an animated GIF, and make it run forwards, backwards and/or onandonandonandon until you stop it.
I'm happy with what it does, and see no merit in learning half a dozen different apps to cover the field which one covers by itself, The only thing I'd like it to have is a means of adding graphics. There's probably an add-on for that, but I haven't looked - I just open PSP and do it with that.
Oh, and the range of filetypes which Irfanview will handle and convert to is better than any other program I've come across.
As a last resort, there's always Wine?? http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=7834 Keeping a whole Windows partition there just to use one imaging application seems like massive overkill to me.
ATM it's just Irfanview and an old Paintshop Pro, but when I get round to it, there will be a very recent Photoshop.
You'll have to work *VERY* hard to convince me that there's a better way than I'm using ATM - well - when I've installed a cut-down XP Pro.