Mieru is a flexible manga and comic book reader.
Feature overview:
- touch friendly interface combined with handy key shortcuts
- simple and intuitive interface layout
- kinetic scrolling
- pinch zoom on devices with multitouch
- all common formats (zip,rar,image folders, ...) are supported
- resume last open chapter
- history of last open titles
- automatic loading of next/previous chapters/volumes
- prettified chapter names
- multiple page fitting modes
- powerful paging dialog
- easily accessible configuration options
Mieru@Harmattan (N9, N950):
- uses QML and Qt Components
- pinch zoom support
- improved Open-file dialog
- since version 2.0
Mieru@Maemo(N900)
- uses Hildon widgets + Clutter page view
- uses native notifications
- portrait and autorotation support
- since version 1.0
Keyboard shortcuts
The harmattan version currently doesn't have support for keyboard shortcuts.
Main
- f - fullscreen
- n - open file chooser
- p - show paging dialog
- c - show show options window
- a - show info window
- m - minimize the main window
- k - toggle kinetic scrolling
- q - quit
- volume keys - turn page
Page fitting
- o - original size
- i - fit to width
- u - fit to height
- z - fit to screen
- doubletap - temporary fit to screen
NOTE:
The mobile interfaces are currently the most advanced one - the desktop interface is currently very simple, but many features can still be accessed using key shortcuts.
Running Mieru from the tarball
For platforms that don't yet have Mieru packages available.
Mieru + QML/Qt Components GUI
Dependencies
Python 2.5+,
Qt Components 1.0+,
python-pyside.qtgui,
python-pyside.qtdeclarative,
python-magic,
libmagic,
rar and zip
Installing
- install all dependencies
- run mieru.py -u "harmattan"
- the -u parameter specifies the UI, "harmattan" is used due to the Harmattan GUI being the QML one
Mieru + GTK/Clutter GUI
Dependencies
Python 2.5+,
clutter,
PyClutter,
PyClutter-GTK,
libmagic,
rar and zip
Installing
- install all dependencies
- run mieru.py
- using the -u parameter, you can specifiy the UI
"pc" = desktop ui,
"hildon" = Maemo 5 UI
Development
Patches, merge requests, feature requests, ideas, bugreports, etc. are much appreciated!
You can also help the project move along by sending a donation - thanks in advance! :)
License
GPL v3
Authors
Martin Kolman
Contact
e-mail: mieru.info@gmail.com
also check out the Mieru thread on talk.maemo.org
Download
You can download this project in either
zip or
tar formats.
You can also clone the project with Git
by running:
$ git clone git://github.com/M4rtinK/Mieru
