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Re: Google image for the day

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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
> In comp.misc, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>> Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> And in order for the thread not to be a total waste of time here's how you
>>> can see a GIF animation with GIMP : you open the menu "Filters" , choose
>>> "Animation" and then "Playback". You can even step frame by frame.
>> The "animate" program which is part of ImageMagick might be more
>> easily launched from a text web browser. I use it sometimes when
>> browsing in Dillo, which also just shows still frames from a GIF
>> animation. Though the clunky process of manually saving to file
>> and then opening separately with "animate" isn't usually worth the
>> reward.
> 
> Huh. gifview from the gifsicle package is my usualy go-to. Can't you
> just make animate or gifview the default tool for the image/gif
> mime-type? 

So far as I can tell from the docs and example configuration file,
there's no support for launching applications to open downloaded
files, and there's no option in the "image" drop-down menu which
suggests it would try to open that image in an external viewer.
There is a plug-ins system, which launches an external program that
is expected to spit out a HTML document, but it wouldn't be suited
to conveniently opening downloaded files.

Such a feature would be handy for viewing PDFs, though in the case
of GIF animations I probably only want to watch one once a year at
most. It's annoying that it still downloads whole multi-megabyte
GIF "videos" just to show a still frame though, I'd call the lack
of animation support a feature if it also avoided downloading extra
data like that.

> (It has been years since I've tried to view an image from a text mode
> browser, and those do tend to support external tools for various
> non-HTML content types.

Yes, I've set that up before in eLinks and Lynx (if not others as
well). I remember thinking that all the MIME stuff adds more
confusion than it's worth compared to just setting file extension
associations like in the GUI file managers I use, but I'm sure that
some people out there love it.

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Google image for the day Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2022-01-01 11:03 +0000
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  Re: Google image for the day Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2022-01-01 11:31 +0000
    Re: Google image for the day Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2022-01-01 11:47 +0000
      Re: Google image for the day Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2022-01-01 12:16 +0000
        Re: Google image for the day not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2022-01-03 00:18 +0000
          Re: Google image for the day Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2022-01-03 02:39 +0000
          Re: Google image for the day Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2022-01-06 01:56 +0000
            Re: Google image for the day not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2022-01-06 22:07 +0000

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