gnome apps

Vincent imnotb at gmail.com
Sun Feb 24 10:59:59 UTC 2008


On 23/02/2008, Olivier Keun <olivier at capstone.nl> wrote:
>
>
> Jim Campbell wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Per Lionel's note to the list, here are my thoughts:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > -- ristretto  - +1.  not a great deal of functionality, but certainly no
> > worse than gqview.  seems to work ok.  cleaner ui than gqview, too.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Thanks, all,
> > Jim
> >
>
> As for Ristretto, i really don't like and/or (want to) use it myself. I
> find it unintuitive and featureless in the wrong places. The program i
> currently use and am quite fond of is GPicView:
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180858&package_id=245164
>
> (Lastest version 0.1.9, version in hardy repo is 0.1.7)
>
> It is tiny -- about half the size installed of Ristretto -- and desktop
> agnostic (only pure gtk+ required). It also feels more stable than
> Ristretto, which crashes now and then on my system when i browse through
> images quickly.
>
> GPicView supports drag&drop, which is something i really miss in
> Ristretto as well.
>
>
Coincidentally I happened to come across gpicview yesterday, and I recall
thinking how that, too, would make a nice candidate for Xubuntu judging by
its website. Either is fine to me.

-- 
Vincent
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