CGView is an image archive file viewer specifically designed for browsing CG archives, as well as to reading manga & comic. Unlike many readers out there, it doesn't extract images to the filesystem, which helps a lot with the speed and prevents fragmentation in the filesystem. It is fast, light and efficient. It is written in Go programming language, and uses the SDL library. And for anyone who might be interested, yes, it can be used under Linux framebuffer.

I originally wrote this as a replacement for Comix (or MComix) on my GNU/Linux machine, so the basic functionality may resemble it.

• AFAIK, there are no CG-targeted archive viewers.
• Comic readers, which would do the job without the fancies, are slow and cause fragmentation in the disk. A work-around is to mount the temp directory as tmpfs, assuming that the comic reader deletes unused image files right away (which is not the case for MComix or QComicBook anyway).
• Works under framebuffer.

• Standard features: fullscreen mode, doublepage mode, manga mode, fit to width and/or height.
• Mirroring & flipping.
• Transition effects. (not done yet)
• Loads image formats supported by SDL_image
• Opens zip, 7z, tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2 archives, as well as ordinary image files.
• Conservative filesystem usage: never extracts images.

Get the sources here. To compile CGView, you will first need a sane Go development enviroment along with SDL, SDL_ttf, SDL_gfx, SDL_image, and sqlite3 installed. Go side dependencies will automatically be fetched by the go command. Just type

  go get

in the source directory and all should be set!

• Transitions.
• Better concurrency.
• Fix the issues with the OpenGL renderer.
• Archive definition format
• Bookmarks

• Although not a priority, RAR and LZMA support.
• Better 7z support. Current implementation causes an annoying hang-up when

opening solid archives.

• Customization of controls.
• GTK support through SDL_WINDOWID hack (not a priority). Should default to pure-SDL under framebuffer.
• Correct display of non-UTF8 filenames (of files within the archive). This will require 2 more dependencies (libguess and iconv), so I'm quite relucatant to implement this.

CGView is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) a later version. This program has absolutely no warranty. See the file named COPYING for details. Report bugs to bug@freeconsole.org.