On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 19:17:22 -0800 (PST) mk <[email protected]> said:

> Thanks for the reply,
> 
> I looked up the /usr/lib/evas/utils folder and evas_image_loader.raw loader
> is not included on the list. Every concivable image and video file loaders
> are there except raw. 
> 
> Then as you said libraw was not included among the dependencies when
> evas_generic_loader was compiled. I guess I just have to accept this and find
> other ways to preview raw images.

recompile your own evas_generic_loaders or bug the package maintainer to fix
his build :)

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>
> To: Enlightenment users discussion & support
> <[email protected]> Cc: mk <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2013 6:26:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [e-users] Question regarding efm
> 
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 10:46:01 -0800 (PST) mk <[email protected]> said:
> 
> evas_generic_loaders provides a set of external executables in
> PREFIX/lib/evas/utils (probably /usr for PREFIX for you). thexe executables
> are run to load an image via pipes and shared memory. this basically
> externalises loading to a drop-in binary and so addresses 2 issues. 1.
> stability of loader - if loaders crash a lot - then it doesnt take the pp
> down too. and 2. GPL. since now a loader is its own binary in a drop-in
> services simply that adds new formats (no binary, no format support), it
> doesnt make the apps using evas GPL.
> 
> in this "utils" dir u'll find binaires (and symlinks to binaries). the
> symlinks you may notice seem to indicate the extensions of files that are
> handled. there is a "raw" loader. it uses libraw. libraw is GPL. *IF*
> evas_generic_loaders was compiled with libraw support there will be a
> evas_image_loader.raw and several symlinks pointing to it.. including
> evas_image_loader.orf - ie olympus raw files. if you have this raw loader
> (and appropriate symlinks pointing to it) AND libraw supports your raw
> format... then this should all work. it's a bit slower than the standard
> loader module path due to needing to fork+exec, but it should work... but as
> mentioned several times.. with the caveat that the generic loaders were built
> with raw support (the ALSO  support loading xcf files, pdf files, ps files,
> svg files AND pretty much every video file format around (avi/mov/mpg etc.)
> via gstreamer (if gst supports it).
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: David Seikel <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Cc: 
> > Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2013 9:16:54 AM
> > Subject: Re: [e-users] Question regarding efm
> > 
> > On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 05:50:05 -0800 (PST) mk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Cedric BAIL <[email protected]>
> > > To: Enlightenment users discussion & support
> > > <[email protected]> Cc: 
> > > Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2013 9:33:48 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [e-users] Question regarding efm
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 6:23 AM, mk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > E17
> > > > is the best. The new default theme is far the best. I love the
> > > > preview window of the file manager because this way I seldom need
> > > > to use image viewer. Unfortunately, it doesn't preview raw image
> > > > formats. I'm a photographer and I have thousands of raw images. Can
> > > > we expect that in the future the raw image format will be added to
> > > > efm's preview? Also when I'm previewing larger images even jpeg (20
> > > > meg and up) the preview is a bit slow.
> > > 
> > > Raw image should also be supported. You need evas_generic_loader with
> > > the correct dependencies for it and it should work fine. For big jpeg,
> > > I think you need some patch on libjpeg and I am not sure that E17 will
> > > trigger the correct path anyway. So that sounds like a point where we
> > > should improve.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > --
> > > Cedric BAIL
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks for replying,
> > > 
> > > evas_generic_loader is installed on my system, yet raw format still
> > > doesn't preview.
> > > 
> > > I'm using Bodhi Linux latest.
> > 
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there more than one raw format?
> > Didn't each major camera maker invent their own?
> > 
> > At any rate, it's up to who ever compiled evas_generic_loader to make
> > sure that the development packages for the dependencies for the formats
> > they want are properly installed at compile time.  So might be a Bodhi
> > issue if they compiled it.
> > 
> > That's right, there are several raw formats. I'm using Olympus .orf raw
> > images.
> > 
> > I guess I can't do much about it. For the time being, I find other ways to
> > preview them. 
> > 
> > Thanks for the hints.
> > 
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