Irfan View

[Sam_Zen]

I noticed that in numerous topics on this forum the app Irfan View pops up.
Recently I became a moderator of the Irfan View forum, and I wondered : is the same awareness
going on the other way. So how many IV-users are familiar with TC ? I guess not much.
So I hope for an impressive percentage of TC-users, to convince IV-users to check the advantages.

[ND]

I've actually never used IrfanView. I use Imagine both as a plugin and as a standalone application.

[SanskritFritz]

I use XnView, somehow I never got used to IV, although it is mighty, I have to admit. But anytime I see the Properties dialog, I cannot help myself but laugh hard... Misc1 - misc2 misc 3

[Sombra]

By order of preference:

• 1- Imagine. As plugin and standalone. (it cover the most of my necessities)
  2- Irfanview. Where I can't do things with imagine (lossless transformations, multiresize, etc.) irfanview is configured in lister for extensions rares.
  3- Xnview. Some times (it work very, very fast with pictures (jpeg) where the thumbnail is extracted from exif information.

[petermad]

I have both IrfanView and XnView installed, but I don't use them as default image viewers/thumbnail generators. By default I use Imagine.

[icfu]

But anytime I see the Properties dialog, I cannot help myself but laugh hard... Misc1 - misc2 misc 3

Well, I don't laugh but cry instead...

Nope, IrfanView is not part of my TC anymore. As a lister plugin, for thumbnail extraction and also as a standalone viewer I have switched to Imagine. XnView is used for thumbnail extraction as a backup.

I am still using IrfanView for some basic tasks though, like making an icon transparent and I like the PNGOUT plugin.

Irfan has waited way too long until he decided to implement decent image centering, that's why IrfanView has never become one of my favourites.

Icfu

[CoMiKe]

I'm using Irfanview as my default picture viewer, but on TC's quickview panel I use the Imagine plugin, so I've voted "No".

[Sam_Zen]

I must admit that the misc-misc tabs are ridiculous, and things like that were reasons for me to accept the invitation to be a moderator of the IV-forum. Maybe I can help there to improve the app.
Nevertheless, so far the percentage seems substantial enough to me.

[Lefteous]

2Sam_Zen
You should restart this poll. There are more motes than votings. Looks like it's possible to check yes and no

[Sam_Zen]

You're right. Strange numbers. I wouldn't know how to restart this poll though.

[Lefteous]

2Sam_Zen

I wouldn't know how to restart this poll though.

Removing the $ at the beginning of the answers should be enough to restart the poll.

[Sam_Zen]

I'm sorry, can't find any $

[Lefteous]

2Sam_Zen
Sorry the $ is in the question not in the answer.

[J.A. Gruys]

To return to the subject. I have used both TotalCommander and IrfanView since the First Day of Creation (meaning my discovery of both of them, separately), and I have never looked elsewhere. Why should I? Both programs, separately or together, do meet my (admittedly simple) requirements.

[icfu]

Why eat steak when an escalope serves the same purpose? Hungry => not hungry

Maybe because life is boring enough to use the same programs for 14 years without trying anything else that could get the job done faster, prettier, more comfortable, etc...?

With the approach "all good as is" we would still ask ourselves why it's so god-damned dark in our caves.

Icfu