Eye of GNOME
Eye of GNOME is the official and default image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment, where it is also known as Image Viewer. There is also another official image viewer for GNOME called gThumb that has more advanced features like image organizing and image editing functions.
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Developer(s) | The GNOME Project |
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Stable release | 3.36.4[1] (8 July 2020 ) [±] |
Preview release | 3.37.3[2] (7 July 2020 ) [±] |
Repository | ![]() |
Written in | C (GTK) |
Operating system | Unix-like |
Platform | GNOME |
Type | Image viewer |
License | GNU General Public License |
Website | wiki |
Eye of GNOME provides basic effects for improved viewing, such as zooming, full-screen, rotation, and transparent image background control. It also has many official plug-ins to extend its features or change its behavior.[3]
File formats
Eye of GNOME supports the following file formats:
- ANI – Animation
- BMP – Windows Bitmap
- GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
- ICO – Windows Icon
- JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group
- PCX – PC Paintbrush
- PNG – Portable Network Graphics
- PNM – Portable Anymap from the PPM Toolkit
- RAS – Sun Raster
- SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics
- TGA – Truevision Targa
- TIFF – Tagged Image File Format
- WBMP – Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format[4]
- XBM – X BitMap
- XPM – X PixMap
Eye of GNOME also supports viewing Exif/XMP metadata associated with an image.
Limitations
Eye of GNOME does not support WebP, DirectDraw Surface (.dds) or JPEG 2000, but gThumb another official GNOME image viewer, does support at least WebP since September 2012.[5]
See also
- Comparison of image viewers
- gThumb – another image viewer for GNOME with organizing and image editing functions
References
- Kitouni, Abderrahim (8 July 2020). "GNOME 3.36.4 Released". GNOME Mail Services (Mailing list). Retrieved 9 July 2020.
- Catanzaro, Michael (7 July 2020). "GNOME 3.37.3 released". GNOME Mail Services (Mailing list). Retrieved 8 July 2020.
- "Debian -- Details of package eog-plugins in bullseye". Retrieved 2 May 2020.
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/eog/-/blob/master/NEWS#L4717
- "[gthumb-list] gThumb 3.1.1 released". Retrieved 2 May 2020.