I’ve just released the new version of my image viewer and manga / comic reader, Quivi (only for Windows right now, but it will be ported to Linux and maybe to Mac). I’ve rewritten it from scratch, check my last post for more info.
The new features added were:
- Prefetching of the next image
- Wallpaper dialog
- Start directory option
But that is only the beginning; now it will be much more easy for me to work on Quivi.
There are many comic readers around; like CDisplay (outdated, but very popular), Comical and Comix. They have much more features than Quivi, and I must admit that I often thought on giving up on Quivi. But I just couldn’t.
I wrote it mainly for myself; when I started there was only CDisplay. The first version was written with Visual Basic (go on, laugh). Then I changed to C++. And now I changed to Python, and I hope this is the last language change 🙂 It’s a hobby project that I grew to love. It suits my needs, but I’d really like to suit the needs of other people too!
It is scary when you realize that people are using your software. I feel responsible; wherever I find someone criticizing it, I feel guilty for not attending those people needs. Yes, that’s stupid, but it’s how I am. At the same time, though, it’s awesome to know that there are people who like it and find it useful.
If you have any suggestion, comment, complain about Quivi, please send it to me!
Yo, i just wanna thank you for this software. Recently “upgraded” to windows 7 because i needed it for a certain program and quickly discovered the default image viewer was garbage.
Right now i feel like i would keep using Quivi even if i went back to XP. Cheers.