Re: Quick cropping with GIMP, like in XV

In article <87abi5kdn4.fld@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Floyd L. Davidson <floyd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Incidentally, there are some useful patches to XV.  One
>allows it to view Nikon's NEF files, which I don't find
>to be actually useful, but one other patch really is a
>gem.  If clicking on the right mouse button gets you a
>control panel that has a "Delete" button, rather than
>"Reject", you have the original XV.  It can be a pain
>patching it and I don't know if binaries are available
>for any given platform, but it is well worth finding a
>patched version.
>
>The "Delete" does exactly that, and the file is gone. A
>useful, but limited function.
>
>The "Reject" option creates a directory named "rejected"
>and puts the selected file into that directory.  In the
>end, if all was right, "rm -rf rejected" will delete
>them all if that is what is desired.  But at any point
>it is also possible to go back and look at what's in the
>rejected directory and revive it.  It's just very nice,
>and of course one doesn't actually need to delete
>"rejected" files!  It's possible to do any kind of a
>bipolar sort, tossing files into the rejected directory
>and then later renaming it to something like "flowers"
>or "selected_for_more_editing".

That does seem like a useful extension.  I'm using the unmodified version,
so
if I want to save deleted images, after an xv session I do:

mv $(undelete -l) raw/culled/ && cd raw/culled && undelete .

The OS I'm using implements file versioning in the filesystem namespace,
so
this moves the deleted files in the current directory to another directory
&
undeletes them.  If I don't undelete them, the versions will be purged
when
their time is up.  A bit of a kludge, but it has worked well :)

	John
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