Comix - GTK comic book viewer

[unz]

I managed to use zoom on xgl ... but maybe it worked before too ...
If i set the option "start the image in full screen mode" [something like this, i don't know the right english translation], zoom lens can't be used. Is it right or a wrong behaviour of compiz manager?
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[RiBBiT]

[unz]

i'm talking about the fullscreen feature related to the image, not the window.
I can use zoom in both fullscreen/windowed mode, related to the window manager.
If i set "stretch/pan the image to the highest possible size", then i can't use zoom.

[From menu, Preferences->behaviour->Option n°3, not n°1]

Sorry for my bad english ... i can't find the right words to explain this issue.
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[RiBBiT]

Ah, I see.

Unfortunately I don't know what's wrong, that option really should have nothing to do with it. Does it work if you skip the "fit-to-screen mode", as it is called in English, and zoom in/out to some custom ratio and try the lens? Also, does it work if you turn that option off and enter "fit-to-screen mode" manually (by pressing S)?

Either XGL/Xorg 7 is behaving very strangely, or there is some well-hidden bug in Comix that I can't find.
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[sternklang]

Hi,

I have slightly different behavior under Xgl/Compiz. Start the program, the zoom lens works, switch to full-screen mode, the zoom lens works, switch back to non-full-screen, the zoom lens disappears until the next time I start Comix. Switching back to fullscreen doesn't bring it back, except if I edge-flip to an adjacent desktop and flip back, the zoom lens appears again. Once in a while, I will get a flash of the zoom lens for a moment (in the third step above) and then it disappears.

If I switch off "Hide cursor in fullscreen mode" I don't get the lens at all in any mode. Turning off fit-to-screen mode doesn't change the behavior at all.

I am running the latest CVS Mesa and Xgl and Quinn's Compiz CVS as of yesterday evening.

[RiBBiT]

sternklang: It seems as if the X events that's being emitted when the mouse is moved has a broken time attached to it. The recent fix for Comix 3.1 added support for negative times(!), but still it must be relative in milliseconds to the first reported event for each Comix session. It might be that the time gets messed up somehow when you enter/exit fullscreen (Is that even possible? Is the X server even aware of such a thing?)

You can try this Comix version, it will spit out some debugging information when the lens is used. Try to do just a few clicks with the middle mouse button, before and after fullscreen, or it will output very much.
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[sternklang]

The output was too much to post here, so I just pasted it into a file and emailed it to you at your sourceforge address.

[RiBBiT]

According to the output all went well, the times are all correct. It seems rather as if there is a problem with the cursor not being changed or being changed back again immediately, which could explain why you see some "flickers". Seeing that the "Hide cursor in fullscreen mode" preference also has an effect in the matter makes it even more likely. Exactly where it could go wrong to cause the kind of behaviour you describe I'm not sure about right now though, but I'll look into it.
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[chuanshi]

First of all, I would like to thank RiBBiT for his excellent work on Comix, by far my favorite manga reader I've seen thus far. It's really great (=

There is one thing that has been bothering me for a while, though. Back in earlier versions (2.7, maybe?), "Go to next archive in directory after last page" would also go to the first image in the next directory when trying to scroll past the last image in a directory. admittedly, I can just archive the folders, but I was also kind of wondering why this functionality was removed in subsequent versions.

[RiBBiT]

Thanks for your support chuanshi. To be honest I can't really remember why that functionality was removed. I think it was because it could cause unexpected behaviour (from the user's point of view) when a new directory was loaded by mistake. The difference with archives is that they are almost always ordered together in some structure so that going to the next archive takes you to the next issue in some comic series for an example. This could be true for plain images in directories as well, but there is also the case with not-so-well-structured directory trees. If Joe User is casually browsing through his pictures in /home/JoeUser/awesome_vacation_pics/ and does not notice that he is at the last picture when he tries scroll further he might end up opening some weird icon like /home/JoeUser/.cryptic_application/cryptic_5488cff4_error_48x48.xpm, and will naturally assume that terrorists have taken control of his computer. There is also the matter of scanning through the current directory for archive files vs. scanning through all directories in the current directory looking for image files, which could possibly take a noticable time in some cases.

All things considered I must confess that the whole matter is rather subjective, taking back the functionality for plain images might not be a bad idea. I will think about it further. There is also the possibility to add it as a preference, but I have been trying to keep down on those lately as Comix is already quite full of them (some of which are rather obscure), and I don't wan't to lose usability by cluttering it with too many preferences that almost noone will ever use or understand.

By the way, all of you XGL/Compiz users out there, have there been any changes regarding Comix compability problems? I kind of gave up on trying to solve the problems while I don't have access to XGL myself, that turned out to be way too much hassle. I am a bit tempted to install it sometime though, then I would of course look into it again.
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[sternklang]

[RiBBiT]

sternklang: Good to know. I have not made any changes to affect this (knowingly), so I guess that it is Xgl that has become more stable.
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