Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix5.panix.com!qz!not-for-mail From: Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style. Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:25:05 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Some absurd concept Message-ID: References: <103a6c8$qvlb$1@dont-email.me> <1053r00$3js5h$3@dont-email.me> <1054q2s$3216t$1@news1.tnib.de> <1056ac4$20042$1@dont-email.me> Injection-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:25:05 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix5.panix.com:166.84.1.5"; logging-data="22356"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" User-Agent: Vectrex rn 2.1 (beta) X-Liz: It's actually happened, the entire Internet is a massive game of Redcode X-Motto: "Erosion of rights never seems to reverse itself." -- kenny@panix X-US-Congress: Moronic Fucks. X-Attribution: EtB XFrom: is a real address Encrypted: double rot-13 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:69597 In comp.os.linux.misc, John McCue wrote: > Marc Haber wrote: >> so I am not sure WHY it EVER was in "most Linux distros". > I believe at the time (early 90s) xv was the only good > image viewer that worked. Can confirm that I used on Unix (not Linux) in mid-90s at least. Late 90s I replaced it with feh, and only went back to xv for fast cropping (open, crop, save, and quit is faster than gnu imp chugging through all the plugins during startup.) > Slackware 15.0 moved it to the "extra" directory. That > usually means its days are numbered. Last time I used it I noticed it performed poorly for my cropping needs. In particular, for images larger than the screen, it would scale them down to fit on the screen, crop *that* version and save the scaled version when I wanted the unscaled one saved. Elijah ------ back to cropping in the imp