Gthumb as default image viewer?

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello,

We had an thread on this list in July 2009 (below) about that with
Gthumb it is possible to view images in a folder and do some simple
editing (resize, crop) in-place - something that the current default
Ubuntu with EOG/F-spot does not do.

The thread ended up in that F-Spots view one image in folder -mode
should have basic editing capabilities included. Unfortunately in Lucid
this does still not exist, and I really think that EOG should be
replaced with GThumb to give users even the basic functions (that are
even found in Windows XP).

Also, most modern digital cameras (and phones) are used to take both
photos and videos. Since F-spot don't import or show videos, most users
are much better off using Gthumb, since with it you can both load the
videos from you camera and view them as you browse your photos.


to, 2009-07-02 kello 12:04 -0400, Andrew SB kirjoitti:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Otto Kekäläinen<otto at sange.fi> wrote:
> > We'll, I've migrated hundreds of Windows users into Ubuntu (I work for
> > a Linux support company) and nine out of then users run into trouble
> > when using Nautilus they try to open and/or manipulate images.
> >
> > On a fresh Ubuntu install I always install Gthumb and make it the
> > default image viewer in Nautilus file associations. That fixes all the
> > usability problems I've witnessed.
> >
> > I also work as a usability export in software development projects,
> > and it's my professional opinion that Gthumb would be better than EOG.
> >
> >
> > If you want to do usability testing yourself, try out this scenario:
> > 1. prepare a folder with a lot of photos
> > 2. ask the user to open that folder and do some tasks. for example:
> > remove duplicate photos, rotate some image, crop/resize another etc.
> > 3. copy that folder to a CD or USB and give it to you
> >
> > Step 2 is where users run into problems. At first when they
> > doubleclick the image, the only function they can do is to rotate.
> > After this users do various things, but most commonly they click the
> > image with the secondary mouse button and select "open with". First
> > they try F-spot which also only allows rotating (in single image
> > viewing mode). Secondly they open Gimp and then they scream, that
> > Linux is too complicated.
> >
> 
> I think you touch on the real issue here. It's not so much a problem
> with viewing photos, as we all have noted there are already two
> options, EOG when you are in a folder and F-Spot for collections. The
> real problem is that those programs aren't image editors and the GIMP
> is a tool for advanced users. GThumb doesn't solve this problem
> either.