mekb-turtle / foto

:framed_picture: Simple image viewer written in C

Hi, I'm mekb. I'm a software developer, I mainly write in C, but sometimes Node.js, C#, Bash, and Java.

foto's Issues

Add the ability to extract the image from an MP3 file and display it

It would be really useful for music album art scripts to pull the image out of a music file and display it. Yes this is possible with ffmpeg and stuff but it would be nice to do it in one command.

Might also be a good idea to make it an arg. That way we don't get slowed down checking if the file is a music file

Progress tracker

• Check if file is a music file
• Extract the image
• Display the image

Rendering images in the terminal using Kitty graphics protocol and/or Sixel.

Yeah is kind of out of the projects scope but i think it would be really cool. Also really helpful in scripts.

Progress Tracker

• Kitty graphics protocol
• Sixel

Window flickers when resizing

Shell completions dont work

Shell completions don't work at all.

Progress tracker

• Bash
• ZSH
• Fish

Add magic as a dependency in the README and workflow

Bug description

you forgor deps

Progress Tracker

• README
• Workflow

Make Foto cross-platform

Feature description

Make the program work on other operating systems, I think macOS would be easiest as it is unix based and you can easily install a C compiler on there

Progress Tracker

• Linux
• macOS
• Windows

Add a DEB package to allow debian users to install easily

This wouldn't be too hard to do but the Makefile is already kinda a mess.

I would suggest our own repo but i don't think there is much of a point to that when it would only have 1 package

Add wayland support

The program mostly works under XWayland but native support would be nice

Hot-reloading does not work properly

The program does not wait for the image to be fully written to before reading it

Add ability to show animated GIFs

Feature description

The ability for the program to show animated GIFs would be cool.
This will mean we need to keep reloading the image for the next frames.

Progress Tracker

• Read each frame of GIF
• Calculate delays between each frame
• Refresh the surface/pixmap when a new frame should be shown

Transparency doesn't work under XWayland

Big images are really broken

Bug description

Big images cause a lot of lag and open absolutely massive windows. I tested on a 3264x2448 image. It causes delay when resizing and a window bigger than the monitor.
I would fix the massive window by limiting the window size to something (half the monitor size?) and allowing users to resize above that. idk about the lag tho.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open a big image
2. Make it float
3. Resize the window

Progress Tracker

• Fix lag
• Fix massive window

Make the logo actually have a background

The logo is cool but the 🖼️ emoji is way cooler. It would be really cool if we added a background to it like in the emoji.