Image viewer applications

[drago01]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 08/26/2014 10:27 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
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>> A couple of things:
>> - We used shotwell's viewer, not shotwell by default. It's a different
>> mode of
>>    the same binary, but it's not shotwell itself.
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>> Personally, I'd keep it as-is for now, and remove both Shotwell (and its
>> viewer) and eog from
>> the default installation once gnome-photos can be installed by default.
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> For whatever it's worth, I'm a very heavy user of this type of
> functionality, and I always replace Shotwell viewer with eog as one of the
> first post-install things to do. Shotwell viewer takes too long to load
> initially and also going from photo to photo in a dir, and it seems to be
> crash prone (or at least, it's freezing or blocking while it loads.)
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> The primary use case I have is flipping through directories of sometimes
> hundreds of images/assets trying to find either a specific targeted one or
> just to feel through them to see if an appropriate image is in the location
> (sometimes locally, sometimes on a remote server or mounted NFS share,
> sometimes on external hw - a friend's SDcard or USB hdd at an event or my
> phone via USB.) Photo managers don't work for this use case because I'm
> going thru photos from a shared pool or mounted external devices. Wider
> context is putting together corporate presentations and trying to find
> appropriate images / diagrams for particular slides, or putting together
> brochures / web page designs / blog post reports etc and going thru others'
> photos of events (say FUDcon or GUADEC or whatever) to find good content to
> snag.
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> Whether or not shotwell viewer remains the default, I'm perfectly
> comfortable switching it on each install; maybe I'm too power user to be
> helpful here. I just worry that going thru large photosets is more and more
> common and the initial experience of Shotwell viewer's slowness gives an
> overall impression of an unresponsive desktop.

I have not seen the hanging part but regarding the "image viewing
workflow" .. its exactly the same that I do. Go with nautlius into the
folder ... open with eog and navigate with the arrow keys.