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Current State

Working on getting it going in Ubuntu. Right now it runs pretty well. Images can be viewed, the navbar works, etc. Main issues are:

• Couldn't get v-sync working so put in a sleep until I figure it out (laptop was getting hot without vsync or the sleep).
• The open file-explorer (or whatever it's called in Ubuntu) is not implemented.
• Had to disable EXR loading cuz it was crashing and looks hard to fix. I think there's an open source single-header loading library that may be good for Linux.
• No app icon yet. Will need to look up how to add that.

Eventually the goal is to have a .deb file to make installation easy. Quite a distance from that, but overall it's working fairly well. Probably the largest work was the file-io stuff and getting the image-loaders working with Clang, and that appears pretty stable so far (jpg, animated gifs, tga, hdr, tif, and dds files all seem to load just fine). I have not attempted any save operations yet.

On the Stack

• Current resize options are only available from the save dialogs. Considering a separate resize dialog (with lock aspect toggle).
• Images currently get 'unloaded' to save memory (LRU) when total memory use hits a max. Need to consider how this interacts with unsaved but edited (dirty) images. This is now 'mostly' done and fixed.
• Direction keys in cropping mode to move selected edge/corner around one pixel at a time.
• Modify next and prev power-of-2 buttons to just show the value.

Future Possibilities

• Support for more dds pixel formats (floating-point).
• Modify image cropping to allow panning at high magnifications.
• Considering getting going on Linux/Ubuntu using CodeLite IDE. So far setup has involved these commands:

Setting up Ubuntu

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install gdebi # Installs this gdebi thing that adds support for installing deb files.
• sudo apt-get install git
• sudo gdebi Downloads/smartgit-19_1_7.deb # Installs smartgit, my favourite git frontend at the moment.
• sudo apt-get install llvm # The compiler.
• sudo apt-get install clang # The compiler.
• sudo apt-get install lldb # The debugger.
• sudo apt-get install codelite # The IDE.

The Software and Updates app allows you to manage (and disable) repositories.

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eugenesan/ppa # Adds a repo
• sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:eugenesan/ppa # Removes a repo

Useful repositories. Can be installed in the Gui from the Ubuntu Software and Updates App.

• https://repos.codelite.org/ubuntu3/ eoan universe # For latest codelite