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From: Ben Bacarisse on 4 May 2008 12:43
John Stumbles <john.stumbles(a)ntlworld.com> writes:

> Is there an image broswer that
>
> * lets you view images including jpeg, png and gif
>
> * can rotate images, properly - adjusting the exif orientation tag
> appropriately, and not deleting the exif data when saving the changed file
> (which kuickshow does)
>
> * 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, that would be my preference but it is rare. Using qiv it is one
key press away (t) but you have to re-fit the image.

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

This is the key for me. I use both qiv (very light and fast) and
gthumb (reasonable browsing of thumbnails) but I do the rotation with
"hot keys" than run exiftrans.

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

If you don't mind very heavyweight apps, I think f-spot does this
"built in" but I don't use it anymore so I may be "misspeaking".

--
Ben.
From: Ben Bacarisse on 4 May 2008 12:51
Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet(a)bsb.me.uk> writes:
> John Stumbles <john.stumbles(a)ntlworld.com> writes:
<snip>
>> * 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, that would be my preference but it is rare. Using qiv it is one
> key press away (t) but you have to re-fit the image.

I should have said that though rare it is done by the Gnome image
viewer ("eye of Gnome"). I don't think you get all our other
requests. It does do rotation and saving of the Exif data.

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Ben.
From: Tony Houghton on 4 May 2008 13:47
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John Stumbles <john.stumbles(a)ntlworld.com> 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

From: Will Kemp on 4 May 2008 15:46
On Sun, 04 May 2008 14:35:48 +0000, John Stumbles wrote:

> Is there an image broswer that
>
> * lets you view images including jpeg, png and gif
>
> * can rotate images, properly - adjusting the exif orientation tag
> appropriately, and not deleting the exif data when saving the changed
> file (which kuickshow does)
>
> * 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)
>
> * lets you easily launch the gimp (or better still an arbitrary external
> application or script) on the image you're viewing
>
> * is stable (unlike gwenview which crashes on various files)
>
> ?

I can wholeheartedly recommend gthumb. I used it for pretty much
everything until a few months ago, when i started using f-spot for my
photo cataloguing and workflow. But i still use gthumb for some things.
It's very good.

If you're looking for something more than just a viewer - a photo
organiser etc, i'd have a look at f-spot too.


--
http://SnapAndScribble.com/will

From: John Stumbles on 4 May 2008 16:14
On Sun, 04 May 2008 19:46:23 +0000, Will Kemp wrote:

> If you're looking for something more than just a viewer - a photo
> organiser etc, i'd have a look at f-spot too.

I'm doing that right now. I've just been trying digikam. Its tagging
business is OK except I've been organising my pictures by hard-linking
copies into other directories (e.g. one for stuff I want the screen saver
slideshow to display). I don't like that digicam keeps my tagging data in
its own database and I'd rather something that embeds tags in the
files themselves, so that if I tag one instance of a file the tags are
there in every other instance. f-spot seems to do this but the downside is
it's trying to copy N gbytes of existing photos into its 'photos'
directory to play with.

Suppose I can't have it both ways: it's not a trivial problem.

--
John Stumbles

Pessimists are never disappointed
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