Why are we still using Eye of Gnome?

jasplund ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Tue May 10 13:34:12 UTC 2005


Alexander Kirillov Wrote: 
> gThumb indeed has many more features than EOG - but this is exactly the
> problem. When a person clicks on an image, he/she wants to see the
> image. Not catalog it, not run a slide show - just see.  EOG does just
> that. If you want more than that, you should ask for it by selecting
> "open with...". 

> 

> Of course, if you know you always want gthumb, just change "Always open
> with" preference to have your jpegs always opened in gThumb (this is
> what I did). But I think that as a default, EOG makes sense. GNOME
> philosophy is to keep it simple: "less is more". KDE philosophy is
> opposite. Choose the one you like.



That´s exactly how I feel. I open my pics with EOG just because it´s
the pic thast I want to see not a lot of other crap.


-- 
jasplund




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