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Mirage: fast and simple image viewer

I have tried several image viewers over the years but generally had always drifted back to gqview. First released in 1998, gqview is quite mature, stable and does what its supposed to do but has always missed on a few things that I needed it to to do, like the ability to crop, resize and make thumbnails without having to open a gimp session.



Mirage seems to be just what I was looking for, it is as fast as advertised and light on library dependencies and of course GPL. I also like how you can cycle the images with the left and right keys which makes navigation quite fast. I left the image rendering set to the default `bilinear' which works fine for me. I suppose that the reason Mirage is so fast is that at this point there is no sidebar with thumbnails, perhaps this is a feature to come later. You can also create custom actions that may be shell commands or executables and bind them to any key which opens up a lot possibilities.