GNOME Image Viewer Adds Image Editing Support

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67377

    GNOME Image Viewer Adds Image Editing Support

    Phoronix: GNOME Image Viewer Adds Image Editing Support

    The GNOME Image Viewer has merged initial support for basic image editing capabilities into the application...

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  • Mez'
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2009
    • 1176

    #2
    Gnome adding something once in a decade instead of removing stuff every few days is cause for celebration.

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    • Quackdoc
      Senior Member
      • Oct 2020
      • 5089

      #3
      too bad loupe is a piece of trash, it manages to lag out when opening some gifs on my tablet. A really impressive feat since no other viewer I have has done so. It's a gif, not hard to render.

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      • V1tol
        Senior Member
        • May 2016
        • 608

        #4
        Originally posted by Mez' View Post
        Gnome adding something once in a decade instead of removing stuff every few days is cause for celebration.
        I'm sure this violates GNOME HIG and CoC ​

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        • uid313
          Senior Member
          • Dec 2011
          • 6922

          #5
          The most important for me is that it is fast and secure so it should be written in Rust and have the image decoding libraries also written in Rust and it should use sandboxing such as seccomp, AppArmor, Flatpak or Snap.

          I think it would be good if it read metadata on the image to discover if it is AI-generated then display a information about that.

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          • Quackdoc
            Senior Member
            • Oct 2020
            • 5089

            #6
            Originally posted by uid313 View Post
            The most important for me is that it is fast and secure so it should be written in Rust and have the image decoding libraries also written in Rust and it should use sandboxing such as seccomp, AppArmor, Flatpak or Snap.

            I think it would be good if it read metadata on the image to discover if it is AI-generated then display a information about that.
            HA. The program is still ShiTK. Fast is about the exact opposite. It's hardly usable on some devices.

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            • Artim
              Senior Member
              • Dec 2020
              • 1259

              #7
              Originally posted by Quackdoc View Post
              too bad loupe is a piece of trash, it manages to lag out when opening some gifs on my tablet. A really impressive feat since no other viewer I have has done so. It's a gif, not hard to render.
              Exactly. But don't dare mentioning that it was a bad choice to have it replace eog as default image viewer. Loupe is a joke, but sadly a very bad one. And with the fact that it tries to adapt its background color so that images with transparency are always viewable, but failing at it miserably with absolutely not easy way to just switch it from dark mode to light mode - according to HIG, apps displaying "rich media" shall default to dark mode, and Gnome doesn't have a concept of a light mode, only dark or default - makes it utterly unusable for anything involving transparency.

              I wish that all distros would just see the insanity behind it and just drop it as a dependency and as default image viewer. That would be a proper sign to the Gnome project that such bs doesn't fly.

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              • osw89
                Phoronix Member
                • Jul 2021
                • 107

                #8
                "What's the usecase for basic image editing functions in an image viewer?"
                -Guy with glasses who doesn't understand why text sharpness is important, probably

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                • Old Grouch
                  Senior Member
                  • Apr 2020
                  • 696

                  #9
                  I hope the crop supports lossless cropping of jpeg images.

                  You can crop jpegs at the iMCU boundaries without needing to recompress.





                  One of the irritating problems with lossy formats, like jpeg, is the need to decompress -> edit -> recompress when editing, so losing image quality, so anything that minimises this is good - so an option for lossless cropping would be welcome.

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                  • Espionage724
                    Senior Member
                    • Sep 2024
                    • 385

                    #10
                    I'd like to be able to draw basic rectangles and pencil without a full-fledged image editor; mspaint can do that

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