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lysace 6 hours ago

xv was very neatly and cleverly designed. I liked it a lot in the 90s. Still somehow remember his name.

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jnpnj 5 hours ago | parent [-]

saw a screenshot as I was reading this article, made me eager to try it, and it's indeed simple, slick and featured... elegant look and feel for a different age.

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em-bee 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

you can try it. a few years ago some people picked up maintenance: https://github.com/jasper-software/xv

i just built it on my machine. works!

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lysace 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Here's two screenshots:

https://snapcraft.io/xv

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jnpnj 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Reminds me of the 90s cgi scene, softimage, lightwave3d

	▲	lysace 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It uses raw Xlib to implement a custom widget toolkit. Yeah, it does feel Amiga-ish. A button (thanks for the github link, em-bee): https://github.com/jasper-software/xv/blob/main/src/xvbutt.c