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Suggestion for lightweight Image Viewer / GTK2 has to go

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Hello

*) Can someone give me a suggestion for a picture viewer?

My last two x11-libs/gtk+:2 dependencies were gimp and viewnior
I use i3wm with partly caja and only a few packages. I want to avoid bloatware.

gimp seems to now use x11-libs/gtk+:3 ant not x11-libs/gtk+:2 anymore


Gentoo also claims that package needs a maintainer so time to ditch it. Unmaintained and x11-libs/gtk+:2

-- Temporarily workaround:

ida and feh seems a temporarily fix
I could also abuse google-chrome

Code:
roman@Sienna_Cichlid ~ $ qlist -Iv feh fbida
media-gfx/fbida-2.14-r6
media-gfx/feh-3.10.3
roman@Sienna_Cichlid ~ $ emerge -s fbida

[ Results for search key : fbida ]
Searching...

*  media-gfx/fbida
      Latest version available: 2.14-r6
      Latest version installed: 2.14-r6
      Size of files: 302 KiB
      Homepage:      https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/
      Description:   Image viewers for the framebuffer console (fbi) and X11 (ida)
      License:       GPL-2 IJG

[ Applications found : 1 ]

roman@Sienna_Cichlid ~ $

I do not want to pull in packages which are only needed for one software.
libreoffice has a good excuse. Other software should not bring in too much bloatware
 
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Thanks for suggestion.


It seems that package is not even in an gentoo overlay. =unrelyable package source which may crash - not up to gentoo usual main reprository. Usually when I do not find in an overlay - it may have some issues. I think this here has some security / binary blob / unknown other reason.


It looks like a binary blob. Nice homepage

It seems no interests since 2018 on the gentoo side.
 
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