Eye of GNOME

Image Viewer

Eye of GNOME 3.16
Developer(s) The GNOME Project
Stable release 3.18 (September 23, 2015 (2015-09-23)[1]) [±]
Preview release 3.19.4 (January 20, 2016 (2016-01-20)) [±][2]
Written in C (GTK+)
Operating system Linux, BSDs, OS X, Microsoft Windows
Type Image viewer
License GNU General Public License
Website wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EyeOfGnome

Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment. Unlike some other image viewers, Image Viewer will only display images. It does, however, provide basic effects for improved viewing, such as zooming, full-screen, rotation, and transparent image background control.

Eye of GNOME will eventually be replaced by a combination of Sushi and GNOME Photos.[3]

File formats

Image Viewer supports the following file formats:

Image Viewer also supports the viewing of the Exif/XMP metadata associated with an image.

Criticism

Eye of GNOME was criticized for its lack of GIF animation playback;[4][5] however, this functionality was included in version 2.29.1.[6][7]

Also, it used to render SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) as a rasterized bitmap by default.[8] This bitmap then gets manipulated when scaling the image, resulting in pixelation when zooming in.[9] However, this is fixed since version 2.31.1.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Clasen, Matthias (September 23, 2015). "GNOME 3.18". gnome-announce-list (Mailing list). Retrieved September 23, 2015.
  2. ↑ "GNOME 3.19.x Development Series". Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  3. ↑ "GNOME Photos 3.8.0". 2013-04-15.
  4. ↑ "Idea #4580: "Image Viewer (eye of gnome) doesn't handle animated .gif files."".
  5. ↑ "Bug #35545 in eog: "Doesn't display animated GIFs"".
  6. ↑ "2.29.1-0ubuntu1 : "eog" package : Ubuntu:". 2009-11-06.
  7. ↑ "eog - Browse and rotate images, a8133caa982f783c615eec8c8aa7eb6b0e5a9a95".
  8. ↑ "Idea #18167: "eye of gnome doesn't render svg properly"".
  9. ↑ "Bug #92127 in eog: "SVG images look blurry when zoomed in"".
  10. ↑ "GNOME Announcement List: "Eye of GNOME 2.31.1"".

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