Image viewer applications

[Elad Alfassa]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
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> ----- 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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If eog is installed but is not the default handler for photos then
it's just sitting there doing nothing... So maybe we should also not
install it by default as part of your "do nothing" plan?

I agree that switching the default in 6 months would be bad, but I
just tried gthumb and it seems to be really good now - so do we know
if Photos will be ready in 6 months? Because if it's not ready for
F22, we might as well switch to gthumb by default until then.


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-Elad Alfassa.