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Eye of GNOME

Eye of GNOME

Free image viewer software for the GNOME desktop environment

Eye of GNOME is the former default image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment, where it had also been known as Image Viewer. It has been superseded by Loupe in GNOME 45.[2] There is also another official image viewer for GNOME called gThumb that has more advanced features like image organizing and image editing functions.

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Eye of GNOME provides basic effects for improved viewing, such as zooming, full-screen, rotation, and transparent image background control. It also has many official plug-ins to extend its features or change its behavior.[3]

File formats

Eye of GNOME supports the following file formats:

  • ANI – Animation
  • AVIF AV1 Image File Format
  • BMP – Windows Bitmap
  • GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
  • ICO – Windows Icon
  • JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group
  • PCX – PC Paintbrush
  • PNG – Portable Network Graphics
  • PNM – Portable Anymap from the PPM Toolkit
  • RAS – Sun Raster
  • SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics
  • TGA – Truevision Targa
  • TIFF – Tagged Image File Format
  • WBMP – Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format[4]
  • WebP
  • XBM – X BitMap
  • XPM – X PixMap

Eye of GNOME also supports viewing Exif/XMP metadata associated with an image.

Limitations

Eye of GNOME does not support DirectDraw Surface (.dds) or JPEG 2000

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "LATEST-IS-44.3". 1 July 2023. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
  2. [2]
    Catanzaro, Michael (17 August 2023). "GNOME 45 Core Apps Update". Michael Catanzaro's Blog. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  3. [3]
    "Debian -- Details of package eog-plugins in bullseye". Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  4. [4]
    "NEWS · master · GNOME / Eye of GNOME · GitLab".
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