[ubuntu-in] Top 5 Image Viewers for Ubuntu/Kubuntu

[Ramnarayan.K]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Manish Sinha <mail at manishsinha.net> wrote:
> On 02/22/2011 07:09 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
>>
>> Top 5 Image Viewers for Ubuntu/Kubuntu http://www.tuxarena.com/?p=623
>
>
>> am a fan of gthumb and shotwell
>
> Gthumb is in middle ground between an image album organizer and an image
> viewer. Last I checked it organizes the images hierarchically by folders as
> opposed to regular image organizers.
>
> Shotwell functions more of a image library manager than a image viewer.
> Takes time to load images when compared to eye-of-gnome. It is fair, they
> have different work.

your right on both counts

which us why gwenview is so nice, it combines features of both plus some more

tried digikam and it looks a bit too heavy


>
>> but this gwenview seems really cool
>
> Even I heard of it, but since it is for KDE, I need to install a ton of
> kdelibs. Not saying I hate KDE, but again, I want my apps to look native as
> much as possible.

i already have some ked stuff and gwenview was installed so just had
to try it out. :-)

ram