Image viewer applications

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Tue Aug 26 15:23:20 UTC 2014



----- Original Message -----
> 
> 
> On 08/26/2014 11:11 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> > Hi Matthias,
> >
> > On 08/26/2014 10:56 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> >> Do you use eog's collection view for this, or do you mean that you use
> >> nautilus for the directory view, and just launch eog for individual
> >> images ? The latter is what I do, I find the collection view pretty much
> >> unusable.
> 
> Oh, one other note - when I'm doing this and find the image I'm looking
> for - right-clicking on the image in eog lets you do "open with..."
> which is very convenient to open up in gimp or inkscape. Shotwell's path
> here is a bit more roundabout - you have to right-click, do
> 'show in file manager,' and then dig out the image (it just dumps you to
> the dir without the target image visible, so you have to go back to
> shotwell, hunt for the name of the image in the UI, then go back to
> nautilus again to find it, and the file names are usually very similar
> and gibberish like if from a digital camera), then right click in
> nautilus to open with the target app.

This is clearly something that we need to do better, whether we end up using
Sushi or gnome-photos in F22 for the "image preview" use case.


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