Re: Image viewers

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

Louis Garcia wrote:
> Why are there two image viewers for gnome. Eog and gthumb basically do
> the same thing. I personally like gthumb as eog ui can use some work. As
> I understand eog is used as a bonobo component for nautilus to display
> images in the nautilus window. Why can't we just move the bonobo
> component to gthumb and kill eog?

I, for one, would be very unhappy if this happened. EoG is much faster 
than gThumb, and has an interface much more suitable for quick viewing 
of images. For day to day tasks, I find Nautilus + EoG do 90% of what 
gThumb does. Any image manipulation is carried out in the Gimp.

--Pat