Image viewer applications

[Diogo Campos (gmail)]

Just a addition:
Right now, at least for me, Shotwell isn't working. It can't import
anything, and kinda freezes (Fedora 21, Shotwell 0.19.0).

Em Seg, 2014-08-25 às 16:40 -0500, Michael Catanzaro escreveu:
> Hi all,
> 
> In Fedora 20, Shotwell was the default image viewer and no other image
> viewer was installed.  In F21 Shotwell is still the default, but now
> Image Viewer (eog) is installed as well. This doesn't make any sense
> since Image Viewer serves no purpose unless it's the default image
> handler, whereas Shotwell is more useful for previewing and organizing a
> collection of photos.
> 
> We've also recently noticed that gthumb looks like a nice alternative to
> Shotwell. I propose we do one of the following:
> 
> * Replace Shotwell with gthumb, and remove Image Viewer.
> * Replace Shotwell with gthumb, but keep Image Viewer as the default
> image viewer.
> * Remove Shotwell, and keep Image Viewer as the only image viewer.
> 
> Opinions welcome.
> 
> You might notice that I'm gunning for Shotwell here. It looks a lot
> older than gthumb, and seems to have mostly the same functionality.
> (Make sure to check out gthumb in F21, not F20. You wouldn't know they
> were the same app due to the huge changes.) Image Viewer, in contrast,
> is a simple app for just previewing images, which is a different
> purpose, but I think gthumb can also serve this purpose just as well
> while looking nicer.
> 
> There are other options, of course, which I am less fond of:
> 
> * Remove Image Viewer. (Shotwell remains.)
> * Make Image Viewer the default image viewer. (Shotwell remains.)
> 
> Either of these would be more sensible than keeping Image Viewer if it
> is not the default image viewer.
> 
> GNOME Photos is notably not one of the apps we're considering. We've
> been told it's not ready yet.
> 
> Michael
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