Hi all!

I've migrated to Debian not long ago, and I'm looking for some really
nice image viewer.

Back then my favourite viewer was XnView. It is fast, easy-to-use,
keyboard-friendly, allows to perform simple transformations, has many
really handy features like EXIF auto-orientation.

Imagemagick's display seems to be a true *nix way, but I couldn't
figure how to configure it to auto-size images, and overall it seems
to be a poor viewer.

EOG is nice, but it is a part of GNOME -- has poor manual, starts
slowly and required many components I would normally uninstall (I use
fluxbox).

gliv is fast, and I mean F-A-S-T! Also it is handy and keyboard-
friendly, but lacks features (no transformations and no EXIF goodies).
For slideshows it seems the best option though.

So, what is your favourite viewer and why?

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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:18:08 -0700,
cmr.Pent@gmail.com <cmr.Pent@gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hi all!
>
>  I've migrated to Debian not long ago, and I'm looking for some really
>  nice image viewer.
>
>  Back then my favourite viewer was XnView. It is fast, easy-to-use,
>  keyboard-friendly, allows to perform simple transformations, has many
>  really handy features like EXIF auto-orientation.
>
>  Imagemagick's display seems to be a true *nix way, but I couldn't
>  figure how to configure it to auto-size images, and overall it seems
>  to be a poor viewer.
>
>  EOG is nice, but it is a part of GNOME -- has poor manual, starts
>  slowly and required many components I would normally uninstall (I use
>  fluxbox).
>
>  gliv is fast, and I mean F-A-S-T! Also it is handy and keyboard-
>  friendly, but lacks features (no transformations and no EXIF goodies).
>  For slideshows it seems the best option though.
>
>  So, what is your favourite viewer and why?

I'm partial to XV.  I don't think there's a deb for it, as it's
essentially shareware, and you basically need to add a lot of patches
that aren't distributed by the author.  It's keyboard friendly, allows
simple transformations, has a complete manual (postscript).  I haven't
heard of any patches to make use of EXIF data though.

Michael C.
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:18:08 -0700, cmr.Pent@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I've migrated to Debian not long ago, and I'm looking for some really
> nice image viewer.
>
> Back then my favourite viewer was XnView. It is fast, easy-to-use,
> keyboard-friendly, allows to perform simple transformations, has many
> really handy features like EXIF auto-orientation.
>
> Imagemagick's display seems to be a true *nix way, but I couldn't
> figure how to configure it to auto-size images, and overall it seems
> to be a poor viewer.
>
> EOG is nice, but it is a part of GNOME -- has poor manual, starts
> slowly and required many components I would normally uninstall (I use
> fluxbox).
>
> gliv is fast, and I mean F-A-S-T! Also it is handy and keyboard-
> friendly, but lacks features (no transformations and no EXIF goodies).
> For slideshows it seems the best option though.
>
> So, what is your favourite viewer and why?

gwenview - it works.
gqview

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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:18:08 -0700, cmr.Pent@gmail.com wrote:

> So, what is your favourite viewer and why?

gThumb; it's small and neat and still being developed.

--
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Chris Game wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:18:08 -0700, cmr.Pent@gmail.com wrote:
> 
>
> gThumb; it's small and neat and still being developed.
>

I second gthumb - been using it for years and the upgrades truly are
that.  It gets better and faster with every version.

JR.

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-Tux.

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Thanks, I've tried gqview and it's so nice!
Bye-bye Eye-Of-Gnome ;-)

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Johnny Rebel <rebelATT@magmaDOTT.ca> writes:
>Chris Game wrote: 
>
>I second gthumb - been using it for years and the upgrades truly are
>that.  It gets better and faster with every version.

Not really.  I use twm as window manager, and gthumb used to work
nicely for me, until I switched to Etch.  Now full-screen mode sucks.
Hmm, I should report this as bug.

- anton
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Anton Ertl wrote:
> Johnny Rebel <rebelATT@magmaDOTT.ca> writes: 
>
> Not really.  I use twm as window manager, and gthumb used to work
> nicely for me, until I switched to Etch.  Now full-screen mode sucks.
> Hmm, I should report this as bug.
>
> - anton

I am a Gnome user and have not noticed anything sucking to bad.  I do a
lot of slide shows etc... and don't have any issues.  My image sizes
have gotten larger, so sometimes in full screen mode it will stall for
about a half a second (sometimes) while is seemingly is caching images
or something - that is the only thing I have noticed.  Images are about
2.5MB each, and it only seems to do this on my laptop (Pentium M 1Ghz, a
slow little bugger).

JR.



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Johnny Rebel <rebelATT@magmaDOTT.ca> writes:
>Anton Ertl wrote: 
>
>I am a Gnome user and have not noticed anything sucking to bad.

Yes, I guess this is a regression that does not occur with more
popular window managers, in particular Gnome's; they would have fixed
it before release then.

The involved gthumb versions are 2.6.3 (fine) and 2.8.0 (not so fine).

- anton
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M. Anton Ertl                    Some things have to be seen to be believed
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Anton Ertl wrote:
> Johnny Rebel <rebelATT@magmaDOTT.ca> writes: 
>
> Yes, I guess this is a regression that does not occur with more
> popular window managers, in particular Gnome's; they would have fixed
> it before release then.
>
> The involved gthumb versions are 2.6.3 (fine) and 2.8.0 (not so fine).
>
> - anton

heheheh, I never looked at my version... it is 2.7.8 on my desktop, it
seems fine to me and 2.6.5  on my laptop, not quite as fine. So, I
believe you are on to something here.... Might have to just upgrade my
laptop version.

JR.


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