[NTLUG:Discuss] Fast image viewer

[steve]

  tr_data1 wrote:
> My new camera produces pics at much better rez and therefore bigger
> files. It's also a lot faster than my old one (even in RAW mode) which
> results in me taking a lot more pics. To sort through them, I am currently
> using GQview 1.5.2. It takes over 2 secs to view each pic. It does gen
> thumbs on-the-fly, if you wait. Even so, to see the pic bigger, you wait
> for it to display (2+ secs for each).
> 
> I'm interested in hearing what free (or extremely low cost) software you
> use. Something fast that lets you pick from thumbs and ideally providing
> the means of moving selected pics to a different directory. I currently
> sort by means of a dir tree.

I use 'xv' (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3964) - it's simple -
but fast and it doesn't make thumbnails unless you ask it to - but once
you do, it caches them so you don't have to remake them every time.

If I recall correctly, it's free for personal use - but I don't think
you get source code.