Sarasas Chip Workshop Picture

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SarasaCW Picture are still in refactoring. Please do not use it until this message removes.

Yet another legacy Windows Photo Viewer with cross-platform support.

Summary

Sarasas Chip Workshop Picture (abbr. SarasaCW Picture) is a lightweight image viewer that has cross-platform support and similar user interface about legacy Windows Photo Viewer. It allows you view JPEG, PNG, GIF, SVG, PSD, KRA, XCF, TGA, HDR, AVIF and some other frequently used image formats files quickly and easily without changing your long-term Windows usage experience.

SarasaCW Picture is the hard fork of Pineapple Pictures since Pineapple Pictures 1.4.1 version.

Installation

Download from the places maintained by the author of this repository:

GitHub Release Page

Contribution

The new feature request of this application are freezed now because this application basically is a replica of legacy Windows Photo Viewer with additional cross-platform support. However, bug report and translation are welcome.

Build Instruction

Current state, we need:

cmake: as the build system.
python3, uv and metaglot: as the metadata localization processor.
qt6 with qt6-svg and qt6-tools: since the app is using Qt.
libexiv2: able to display more image metadata. (optional, but recommended)

Then we can build it with any proper C++ compiler like g++ or MSVC.

Building it just requires normal cmake building steps:

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake ..
$ cmake --build .

After that, a scwpic executable file will be available to use. You can also optionally install it by using the target install. After the build process, you can also use cpack to make a package.

The project will try to build with exiv2 when it's available at build time, if you would like to build the project without exiv2, pass -DEXIV2_METADATA_SUPPORT=OFF to cmake. The project will also not use exiv2 if it's not found, the EXIV2_METADATA_SUPPORT option can be useful if you have exiv2 but specifically don't want to use it.

Image formats supports rely on Qt's imageformats plugins, just get the plugins you need from your distro's package manager will be fine. For Windows user, you may need build and install the imageformats plugin manually, read the content below.

It's possible to build it under Windows, Linux, macOS, and maybe other desktop platforms that Qt is ported to.

License

SarasaCW Picture as a whole is licensed under MIT license. Individual files may have a different, but compatible license.

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