Image viewer applications

[Alberto Ruiz]

FWIW, I am by no means a professional photographer/graphics person here
and I completely concur with _all_ Mairin's points here.

Personally I don't want to get into the discussion of which app is
better. But whatever app we choose, we should make sure we reach out to
the developers and help them make them as responsive/fast as possible.

On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 10:50 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> On 08/26/2014 10:27 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 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.)
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> ~m

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Greetings,
Alberto Ruiz
Engineering Manager - Desktop Applications Team
Red Hat, Inc.