Re: gqview windows port

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Marvin Zhang wrote:

> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:33:01 -0800 (PST)
> From: Marvin Zhang <marvin2yuer-/[email protected]>
> To: Alan Horkan <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Gqview-devel] gqview windows port
>
> The purpose of gqview-win project is just finding a place to share it.
> It is not offensive to the gqview developer.

Ooops, what I meant was to encourage this work and express my hope things
would all be kept together.

> Instead, I like gqview because of it is light so that it can run on my
> aged laptop. I am very pleased if my porting code can be merged back to
> gqview project.  And for many examples like GTK, GIMP, Dia, ... Windows
> port are very good complementarity.

The port is complementary, but the seperate websites are not as good as a
single website jointly promoting the latest version for both platforms.

Since you mention the GIMP it is part of why I believe it is important and
hope the two sites will be kept together, and the windows port treated as
fully official.  In the past the windows port of the GIMP was quite
seperate and it seemed like a neglected step-child, and there was a
certian amount of elitism.  It was the existence of Free Software/Open
Source for windows which got me interested in the first place and I'd hate
to see something like that that happen again so I want to encourage the
developers to all work together.

> GQview-win is tiny, but I hope it can expand the GQview users into win32
> area.

I agree, it is a great idea and I hope it does really well

- Alan


> > Subject: [Gqview-devel] gqview windows port
> >
> > I established a project for GQview windows port
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/gqview-win
>
> Here's hoping it can all be integrated back into GQView and allow things
> to continue as a single unified project.  Having two seperate pages might
> make it seem like the main GQView developer didn't like the Windows port
> which I don't believe is true in this case.
>
> Thanks for all your efforts, it will be great to soon be able to recommend
> a Free Software thumbnail browser to windows users too, and have the
> choice to use GQView even if I cannot choose my Operating System.


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