fauu / gomicsv

A GTK comic viewer

Gomics-v

A GTK comic viewer

Gomics-v is a GTK comic and image archive viewer written in Go, available under the GNU GPL v3 or later.

This is a personal fork of Gomics (without the -v). Please also consult the main project’s README at https://github.com/salviati/gomics.

This fork has been made with personal use for reading manga with mouse-centered navigation in mind. Consequently, some aspects of other workflows might have been broken.

The program has only been confirmed to work on Linux, but it is possible it would work on other platforms.

Changes from Gomics

• Added Jumpmarks

  Temporary page marks for quickly jumping around the currently open archive. See the Jumpmarks menu in the menu bar for more information.

• Added Hide UI option (Alt+M to hide/unhide).

• Added experimental HTTP archive support

  See File › Open URL (experimental) for a detailed explanation. A HTTP archive can alternatively be loaded by providing the URL as a program argument (see ./gomicsv --help) or by pasting the URL into the program.

• Reworked page navigation

  • Click the left/right half of the image area to go to the previous/next page.

  • Drag with the middle mouse button to pan around the image.

• Added integration with Kamite (a desktop Japanese immersion companion)

  Right-click on text block for automatic OCR. Right-hold-click to initialize manual block recognition selection. Must be first enabled in Preferences.

• Added Remember reading position option

  Automatically saves the last reading position for each archive and resumes reading at that position. Must be first enabled in Preferences.

• Added Save image as… command

• Added Copy image to clipboard command

• Polished the look of preferences UI.

• Made the Background color preference functional.

• Reorganized the codebase.

• Various other minor tweaks (and breakages).

Installation

Download the latest release package from the Releases page (Linux only) and extract it to the location where you want to keep the program files (e.g., /opt/gomicsv).

Or build it from the source (see below).

Known issues

• On GNOME, Hide UI breaks once the window is made full screen or maximized.

Building

git clone "https://github.com/fauu/gomicsv"
cd gomicsv
make build

A self-contained Gomics-v executable will be produced at target/gomicsv.

Building requires go and some GTK-related dependencies. See gomics: Requirements. GTK-related build steps might take up to 15 minutes on first compile.

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Extra information for Windows and macOS:

• https://github.com/gotk3/gotk3/wiki/Installing-on-Windows

• https://github.com/gotk3/gotk3/wiki/Installing-on-macOS

License

Gomics-v
Copyright (c) 2013–2021 Utkan Güngördü [e-mail]
Copyright (c) 2021–2023 Piotr Grabowski

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.