best way to display photos

[Thomas Guettler]

Some years ago I had the same problem.

I wrote a simple app with pygtk. You get get it from here:
   http://guettli.sourceforge.net/gthumpy/src/README.html
The next pictures get loaded in background. Switching from
one image to the next is faster then in some other apps. But
somehow it is not ready for the public. I guess I am the only
one who uses it.

Flags are symlinks in the home directory .local/share/app/gthumpy. This
means you should not move your images, otherwise the flags get lost.

I don't think it will work on ms-windows, but it could be ported.

Or you use mirage:
http://mirageiv.berlios.de/index.html

It is a pygtk image viewer. You can define shortcuts that execute user defined
commands.

  Thomas

samwyse schrieb:
> I have several thousand photographs that I need to quickly classify,
> all by myself.  After extensive searches, I have been unable to find
> anything to my liking, so desire to write something myself.  I'm
> thinking about displaying a photo and waiting for keystrokes to tag
> it; 'i' for interior, 'e' for exterior, etc., while hitting space or
> enter will advance to the next photo.  My big question is, what's the
> best way to display the photos.  I've used PIL in the past, but IIRC
> it uses an external program.  Pygame is the next obvious choice, but
> like PIL it requires an add-in.  That leaves Tkinter.  Has anyone used
> it to display .JPG files, perhaps with rescaling to fit my screen?
> How is its performance?  Is there any other possibilities that I've
> missed?  Thanks.


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