Image viewer applications

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Tue Aug 26 16:56:56 UTC 2014



----- Original Message -----
> On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 18:18 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> > I think we got enough reasons here to have eog as the default viewer.
> > We can still install shotwell (or gthumb or whatever) by default as a
> > "manager" if people want it.
> 
> Yeah, let's cross out all of the Shotwell options, I think there's
> sufficient consensus to move past that now.
> 
> Remaining options:
> 
> * eog as default and only image viewer
> * gthumb as default and only image viewer
> * eog as default image viewer, with gthumb installed as shotwell
> replacement

I vote for option 4:
 * Do nothing for F21 (and hopefully fix sushi bugs wrt. navigation, switch to gnome-photos)

> Nobody besides me is advocating for gthumb here. That either suggests we
> should not install it, or more likely that nobody else has tried the new
> gthumb. Or both. :) It has much better integration with GNOME than eog.
> There are some screenshots at [1] but they are showing off the advanced
> features rather than the simple image previewer mode that users will see
> when opening an image (which is the second to last screenshot, but
> without the big sidebar).
> 
> [1] http://fedoraftw.com/meet-totally-revamped-gthumb-331

Switching to gthumb now and back in 6 months is probably the worst thing we can do.


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