Why another image viewer?
Surely there are plenty of those? I used to use xv for paging through images — it’s quite a good viewing program — but it had a few features which annoyed me. For example, it creates a directory called .xvpics in every directory it touches; and if an image has to be resized to fit the screen, and after that you save it (perhaps after rotating it), it saves at the smaller size and boom, there goes your high-res image. But, more important, there were a few extra things I needed. During image triage, I need to be able to do a few things quickly: – Rotate images by multiples of 90 degrees, and remember the rotations. – Delete bad images. – Copy a few of the best horizontals to my Backgrounds (wallpaper) directory. – Note which images I might want to put on a web page (after resizing). With xv, I found that I was writing these lists on paper, or trying to keep track of them in my head. That’s dumb! Why not make the computer do that work? So I did. Since I wrote pho several years ago, I ke
