Re: [gnome-love] GSoC 2010 Proposal (fast image viewer)

[Aleksey Kunitskiy <alexey alexey-kv info>]

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:04:50 +0100
Darko Makreshanski <d makreshanski jacobs-university de> wrote:

> Basically I think the most important thing in an image viewer is 
> preloading. If when the user looks at an image and the program 
> automatically loads into memory the next images, then it feels very 
> snappy and fast.

In the most of "fast" image viewers that's the point - they preload at
least previous and next one images

> And this is what picasa is doing now, when the image is still not in 
> memory, it first shows a low resolution image until it loads.
> I think this is perfect, and I would like to see this in a linux
> viewer.
> I hope this is of help

Thank you =)

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Aleksey Kunitskiy