Folks talk about xv in the past tense. I still use it. On AWS it is still a great way for me to view images on headless ECS instances using an X11 server on my Mac. I still use on my local Linux boxes because it has image editing features I still can not find elsewhere.
John Bradley, author of xv, has died
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Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died
#42XV was excellent, and had some features I've never seen anywhere else. For example, it had a control panel that would allow you to take part of the color space and map it uniformly to a different part of the color space, for example, turning all the reds (and just the reds) green. When my kid, now almost 22, was very small, she would sit on my lap in front of the computer, with XV displaying a picture of Elmo. “Green…
The last time that I checked, XV was still in the OpenBSD ports collection. It fits well with fvwm.
I actually bought a license for XV, and I have the manual.
Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died
#43I made the massive mistake of scrolling down - something vile and worse than X.
Link has since been replaced and I didn't catch the gab link, but yikes, the new site is also filled with conspiracy peddling [1] and, even worse, blatant Russia apologetism [2]. [1] https://voxday.net/tag/immigration/ [2] https://voxday.net/tag/russia/
Vox Day may be a familiar name to folks who were paying attention to the SF / fantasy world tenish years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_Day
Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died
#44The original link of this thread was to: https://gab.com/markofafreeman/posts/116290669616400528
Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Link has since been replaced and I didn't catch the gab link, but yikes, the new site is also filled with conspiracy peddling [1] and, even worse, blatant Russia apologetism [2]. [1] https://voxday.net/tag/immigration/ [2] https://voxday.net/tag/russia/
Vox Day may be a familiar name to folks who were paying attention to the SF / fantasy world tenish years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_Day
Between Gab and Vox Day, is no one else writing about this guy except the extreme right? Is there not a better source available?
Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died
#46xv was very neatly and cleverly designed. I liked it a lot in the 90s. Still somehow remember his name.
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.
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!
Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Here's two screenshots: https://snapcraft.io/xv
Reminds me of the 90s cgi scene, softimage, lightwave3d
Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died
#48Sometimes you see credits and say "Oh, wow, I didn't know that they were involved with that!?" For John Bradley, it is xv and xcalc. For Hisham Muhammad it is htop and LuaRocks. And for Jason Donenfeld it is wireguard and cgit. Perhaps some of you have other examples.
> Perhaps some of you have other examples. The entirety of the works of Fabrice Bellard. QEMU and FFmpeg are the most well-known ones, but there's also a full blown x86 emulator fully and exclusively written in native JavaScript, a greenfield image compression format, a JS engine and probably a dozen other things I only randomly stumble upon and think "oh, wtf, another Fabrice Bellard thing?".
On several occasions, I’ve seen some outlandish claim or another on a new piece of software I’ve never heard of, started to roll my eyes, saw that Bellard had written it, and turned back to see what genius thing he’d come up with.
“New Halting Problem solver,” ok, sure buddy, “by Fabrice Bellard”, ok, so tell me how this works…
Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died
#49The original link of this thread was to: https://gab.com/markofafreeman/posts/116290669616400528
Eww. Too bad interesting news comes from such a vile source. (This is the message below that as I write this: https://gab.com/disco/posts/116293438874138531)
Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's two screenshots: https://snapcraft.io/xv
Reminds me of the 90s cgi scene, softimage, lightwave3d
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