sanxchep/licasa
- Total stars
- 23
- Today
- +10since 06:57 UTC
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Open-source image viewer and editor for Ubuntu 24.04. View HEIC, AVIF, JPEG XL, RAW previews, and Motion Photos in fullscreen or floating windows.
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About the project
Image viewer and editor for Linux: opens JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WebP, HEIC/HEIF, JPEG XL, AVIF, JPEG 2000 and RAW previews, plus Motion Photos and APNG, with cropping and export.
Useful for
- Open a HEIC or AVIF photo from the file manager in fullscreen
- Crop and export a shot without launching a heavy editor
- Preview RAW files and Motion Photos on Ubuntu 24.04
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 25, 2026, 07:46 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-25 (UTC), 06:57–07:41: 13 → 23 stars (+10). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +21 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 0 per day.
- The repository is 28 days old and already has 23 stars.
- Hacker News: “Picasa Photo Viewer Rebuilt for Linux, Project Named Licasa” — 44 points, 2 days ago.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 11.
Daily measurements · UTC
- October 18, 2026
- 0
- October 19, 2026
- 0
- October 20, 2026
- 0
- October 21, 2026
- 0
- October 22, 2026
- 1
- October 23, 2026
- 0
- October 24, 2026
- 10
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 10 · October 24, 2026. Days with data: 28.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 25, 2026, 07:46 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
Three GitHub discoveries in each edition
What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.
Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 23
- Today
- +10 stars measured 2026-10-25, 06:57–07:41 UTC, ≈ 21 by evening
- Forks
- 1
- Issues and pull requests
- 2
- Watchers
- 1
- Language
- C++
- License
- BSD-2-Clause
- Latest release
- v0.7.1 · October 24, 2026
- Created
- September 27, 2026
- Last push
- October 24, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Picasa Photo Viewer Rebuilt for Linux, Project Named Licasa44 points, October 22, 2026
Spotted in
- October 25, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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