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synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

[solved - using mirage] Animated GIF support for GQView?

Can I play animated GIFs with GQView somehow?  Or is there a good image viewer any of you guys recommend that plays animated GIFs?

Last edited by synthead (2008-01-31 10:56:16)

semdornus

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From: Tokyo

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 47

Re: [solved - using mirage] Animated GIF support for GQView?

No, GQView doesn't support animated GIFs.
If you don't want to open them in your webbrowser you can try XNView,
if you use Gnome you can try gThumb or for KDE there is KSquirrel.
Note I haven't used any of these programs, so I don't know how well they do it...

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: [solved - using mirage] Animated GIF support for GQView?

This may be overkill, but you can do it through GIMP:

Filters--> Animation--> Playback

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: [solved - using mirage] Animated GIF support for GQView?

there's  also gifview (it's in gifsicle package) or xanim in unsupported.

bionnaki

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Registered: 2006-09-05

Posts: 289

Re: [solved - using mirage] Animated GIF support for GQView?

I highly recommend mirage - animation is enabled http://mirageiv.berlios.de/

http://kmandla.wordpress.com/software/

Mirage

Another program that is frequently updated on my system is Mirage, and that says to me that the people behind Mirage are actually working on it, and with regular success. Image viewers for Linux are almost as prolific as music players — the running joke is, if you must learn a new programming language, you can do us all a favor and not code another music player. Or for that matter, image viewer.

Mirage stands out for me because of the points I made at the top of the page: It does one thing, it does it well, and it doesn't drag in a huge glut of dependencies when I install it. It also scores the hat trick by looking good while it does it — it picks up your current GTK2 theme and follows suit, with the addition of an image preview sidebar and a status bar. It's the standout example of my ideal program.

Everyone has their favorite image viewer, and some of them are quite good. But for sheer simplicity, efficiency and an attractive layout, Mirage gets a perfect score from me.

synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

Re: [solved - using mirage] Animated GIF support for GQView?

Ahh, not bad

I like it, thank you!