EOG vs Shotwell Viewer

Owas Lone hello at owaislone.org
Mon Nov 21 21:46:32 UTC 2011


On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Le 19/11/2011 23:50, Owas Lone a écrit :
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Will EOG still be the default image viewer in Precise?
>> I think shotwell viewer has matured enough to replace EOG. It has all
>> the expected features and more + consistency for free:)
>>
>> So which will be the default image viewer for Precise?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --
>
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for brining the topic, the issue there is to define "image",
> shotwell handles photos formats but not images ones (bmp, gif, etc). Would
> it be better to different formats with different viewers or would that be
> confusing for the users?
>

I was not aware about the fact that shotwell doesn't handle some
formats. I don't think it's a good idea to have different apps for
different formats.


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