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Re: image browser?

Subject: Re: image browser?
From: Tony Houghton
Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 18:47:27 +0100
Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux

In <8RjTj.121271$4f4.55781@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
John Stumbles <john.stumbles@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is there an image broswer that

Try gqview.

> * lets you view images including jpeg, png and gif

Yes.

> * can rotate images, properly - adjusting the exif orientation tag
> appropriately, and not deleting the exif data when saving the changed
> file (which kuickshow does)

It seems to have two ways of rotating an image, one temporary for
viewing and one by using an external "editor". So if you can find a
command line tool which does what you want, yes.

> * zooms in and out, but reverts to a normal zoom showing the whole
> image in the display area when moving on to the next image (unlike
> gwenview which shows all images magnified image after you've played
> with the zoom on one image)

Yes - possibly not by default, but can definitely be configured that way.

> * lets you easily launch the gimp (or better still an arbitrary
> external application or script) on the image you're viewing

Yes.

> * is stable (unlike gwenview which crashes on various files)

Yes IME.

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TH * http://www.realh.co.uk


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