From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/20263 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: MIME handling for common MS Windows attachments? Date: 13 Jan 1999 01:38:56 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035158585 16833 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:03:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:03:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA29825 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 04:39:59 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAB25954; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 03:39:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 13 Jan 1999 03:39:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA25817 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 03:39:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.64.12.23]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA29816 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 04:39:17 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 20989 invoked by uid 50); 13 Jan 1999 09:38:56 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "12 Jan 1999 20:13:04 +0100" Original-Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.66/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20263 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20263 Hrvoje Niksic writes: > The trouble is that xv is much better than most of the other stuff out > there, especially for 8bit displays. Defaulting to free stuff might be > a politically good idea, but it's a lousy choice for users. This hasn't been my experience; ImageMagick is enough better than xv that I never use xv any more. >> What image viewing programs exist out there? > There is imlib/gtk-based gqview, then there's ee (Electric Eyes) (also > imlib-based), ImageMagick's display (it produces high quality display, > but it's very slow, making it unsuitable for MIME viewers). This surprises me. I've found ImageMagick relatively competative with xv for most images. It's a good bit slower when it has to dither 24-bit, but that's not the common case for a MIME viewer, surely. And the quality difference is noticeable. I'll point out as an aside that xv doesn't appear to deal at all well with virtual desktops, tending (at least for me) to put the popup window in the upper left corner pane. ImageMagick correctly displays the image in the current pane. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)