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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:30:51 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:16:34 -0800, John Ames wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:53:38 -0000 (UTC)
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> In any piece of Free software, such a limitation would sooner or later
>> be seen as a bug, and a patch would be available to fix it.
> 
> Ristretto is ~18 years old by now, and there's still no option to
> disable its Windows Picture & Fax Viewer-esque "index the whole
> directory on launch" behavior. There are multiple threads on r/xfce
> about the performance penalties this imposes when viewing images from
> large-ish directories.

Obviously nobody cares. At least, nobody with any ability to offer a fix.