Image viewer applications

[Máirín Duffy]

On 08/26/2014 09:54 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 01:10 -0400, Liam wrote:
>> What's the use case? What functionality are the target users expecting
>> from an image viewer? My experience is I only ever use such apps for
>> rather quick assessments of images. For more than that I open a
>> dedicated editor.
>> Does a image viewer need to do more than just show an image (possibly
>> along with metadata)?
>
> With eog you can look at multiple images in multiple windows. I guess
> sushi could do this too but you'd need to open a new nautilus window
> each time. Then don't ever hit space.

Just out of curiosity (and I hope this doesn't drag the thread somewhere 
unuseful, if so I continue further off-list) -

What's the context for multiple images in multiple windows? Are you 
doing comparison work? Something else? Is it a very frequent use case?

~m