Eye of GNOME
Eye of GNOME 3.16 | |
Developer(s) | The GNOME Project |
---|---|
Stable release | 3.22.2 (9 November 2016[1]) [±] |
Preview release | 3.23.2 (23 November 2016[2]) [±] |
Repository |
git |
Written in | C (GTK+) |
Operating system | Linux, BSDs, OS X, Microsoft Windows |
Type | Image viewer |
License | GNU General Public License |
Website |
wiki |
Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment, where it is also known as Image Viewer. Unlike some other image viewers, Eye of GNOME 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
Eye of GNOME supports the following file formats:
- ANI – Animation
- BMP – Windows Bitmap
- Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
- ICO – Windows Icon
- JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group
- PCX – PC Paintbrush
- Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
- PNM – Portable Anymap from the PPM Toolkit
- RAS – Sun Raster
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
- TGA – Targa
- Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
- Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format (WBMP)
- X BitMap (XBM)
- X PixMap (XPM)
Eye of GNOME also supports the viewing of the Exif/XMP metadata associated with an image.
eog doesn't support webp
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]
Eye of GNOME 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] Since version 2.31.1, this too was fixed.[10]
See also
References
- ↑ Clasen, Matthias (21 September 2016). "GNOME 3.22". gnome-announce-list (Mailing list). Retrieved 21 September 2016.
- ↑ Clasen, Matthias (21 September 2016). "GNOME 3.22". gnome-announce-list (Mailing list). Retrieved 21 September 2016.
- ↑ "GNOME Photos 3.8.0". 2013-04-15.
- ↑ "Idea #4580: "Image Viewer (eye of gnome) doesn't handle animated .gif files."".
- ↑ "Bug #35545 in eog: "Doesn't display animated GIFs"".
- ↑ "2.29.1-0ubuntu1 : "eog" package : Ubuntu:". 2009-11-06.
- ↑ "eog - Browse and rotate images, a8133caa982f783c615eec8c8aa7eb6b0e5a9a95".
- ↑ "Idea #18167: "eye of gnome doesn't render svg properly"".
- ↑ "Bug #92127 in eog: "SVG images look blurry when zoomed in"".
- ↑ "GNOME Announcement List: "Eye of GNOME 2.31.1"".
External links
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