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Comicviewer
Comicviewer is a GTK4 desktop application for browsing and reading comic image archives stored locally or on SMB, FTP, and SFTP servers.
The project is currently in early development. It supports saved local, SMB, FTP, and SFTP locations, complete remote ZIP downloads with an LRU cache, natural sorting, safe on-demand image decoding and prefetching, single-page and two-page viewing, continuous vertical scrolling, reading progress, and XDG-compliant configuration.
Development dependencies
On CachyOS or Arch Linux:
sudo pacman -S rust gtk4 sqlite gvfs gvfs-smb
Run the application with:
cargo run
GVfs provides the FTP and SFTP backends. gvfs-smb adds SMB support. These
services must be installed on the host even when Comicviewer is distributed as
an AppImage.
Application files are stored below the standard XDG configuration, data, and cache directories. No runtime state is written into the source tree.
AppImage
The AppImage build uses linuxdeploy and linuxdeploy-plugin-gtk:
PATH="/path/to/appimage-tools:$PATH" \
LINUXDEPLOY="/path/to/linuxdeploy-x86_64.AppImage" \
./packaging/build-appimage.sh
The resulting file is written to dist/. Remote locations still require the
host system's GVfs services and protocol backends, including gvfs-smb for
SMB.