Comix - GTK comic book viewer

simkin · Apprentice Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 164

The 0.8 ebuild works fine on my amd64, so I think you can add ~amd64 to the keywords :)

RiBBiT · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 215 Location: Sweden

I'll add ~amd64 to the keywords.

The option is called "Flip position of pages in double page mode".
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simkin · Apprentice Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 164

Ops, I didn't see that option. Thanks RiBBiT, It works very fine.

effloresce · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 109

Wow RiBBiT, comix is really coming along nicely. 0.8 just seems like such a great improvement from whatever version it was almost a week ago.

Any chance of an option to remember the page you were on when you close?

RiBBiT · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 215 Location: Sweden

Thank you. I guess I do release new versions quite often, but I just think it is more fun to write the program than to read the darn comics. :wink:

You could use the bookmark feature to save the archive/page, and then load it the next time you start Comix. I could add an option to always load the page you were reading when you closed the application, if you think it would be convenient.
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unz · l33t Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 819 Location: Roma, Italia

in gnome i've to edit comix.desktop in order to see it in the menu .. here's mine

RiBBiT · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 215 Location: Sweden

unz: Do you know why the old one didn't work?

Wasn't Categories already set to Application;Graphics;Viewer; for you?

I updated the desktop file for Comix 0.9 to this:

unz · l33t Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 819 Location: Roma, Italia

slow down man!

... i'm still stuck with "OLD" 0.8 .. i'm gonna emerge 0.9 in 5 minutes ..

EDIT:
i emerged it, but i can't see it in my menu .. i can't understand why ... has comix.desktop been saved in utf-8?
Wait for another feedback, probably the problem is mine.
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effloresce · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 109

The menu works fine for me. I really do like having the options of having the menu/toolbars.

Hope it was okay just to rename the 0.8 ebuild to 0.9. It seems to have worked fine though.

RiBBiT · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 215 Location: Sweden

unz: Why, that version is several days old. :roll:

About the .desktop file; it is saved in UTF-8. Not that I think it would make any difference since it only contains basic ASCII characters anyway. UTF-8 is backwards compatible with those right? Correct me if I'm wrong.

effloresce: Glad you like it.

The 0.8 ebuild should work as well with 0.9 as it did with 0.8, not that I know how well that is.
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Lowspirit · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 12:06 pm Post subject:

Thoughts on making a thumbnailer for it so it shows the firstpage of the comic as a thumbnail? I use beagle alot and having the thumbnails there helps when quick searching for something, and it looks pretty.

If possible, something to make the thumbnails stand out and not just look like plain images, perhaps some post-processing of the image that goes into the thumbnail (kinda like totems video thumbnailer adds film border on the left and right of the thumbnail), my idea here would be a simple fade on the left side to emulate where all the pages are stapled togheter and... hard to explain, see example instead :

http://www.lowspirit.org/Images/comix_border.png

I overdid it but it shows the general idea better then, and you kinda have to overdo it in tiny thumbnails for it to even show.
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RiBBiT · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 215 Location: Sweden

I have actually thought about it, maybe I'll add it to future versions. Doing something more than just showing plain images is a good idea. The problem is that custom post-processing is kind of slow, but maybe it will run fast enough since the thumbnails will be so small. It is basically a matter of manipulating each colour value in each pixel if there is no ready made convenience function. I made a function myself to Comix which increased the contrast of the images, but it took 5-10 s for each page on my Athlon 2500+

. There are probably more efficient ways of doing the same thing ofcourse.
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tuppe666 · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 423

For any newbies wondering how to install the custom ebuild, here's the steps:

Vanquirius · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:26 pm Post subject:

I love it!
Now in Portage as media-gfx/comix.
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simkin · Apprentice Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 164

At last we've it in portage! Thank you!

Deranger · Veteran Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 1215

Really nice to see Comix in Portage. :wink:

cwest · n00b Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 72 Location: Oslo, Norway

Nice app, runs perfectly on my amd64

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mark_alec · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:16 am Post subject:

Moved from Unsupported Software to Desktop Environments as it is now in portage and supported.
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Deranger · Veteran Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 1215

Comix 2.8 was released yesterday.

Great stuff.

Vanquirius · Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:25 pm Post subject:

RiBBiT · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 215 Location: Sweden

This thread is still alive.

I'm glad you like the application, and Vanquirius - don't worry, gconf never plays nicely. :twisted:

Lowspirit: I just realized that I had misunderstood your talk about a thumbnailer all along. :oops:

I thought you meant thumbnails for the pages (don't ask me why). Now Comix finally includes a thumbnailer at least.
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Tenobok · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:37 pm Post subject:

Comix does not work for me. The 2.7 ebuild does not install an executable.

Then I tried to install comix 2.9. It does install one executeable (comicthumb), but I guess it's not the main executeable.

Vanquirius · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:26 pm Post subject:

USE flags shouldn't have an effect getting /usr/bin/comix to install.
This line is probably failing for you for some odd reason:
"python install.py install --installdir "${D}"usr 1>/dev/null"
Have you tried installing it by hand?
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