App of the week: Eye of GNOME
June 5th 2007
I recently discovered this little application, and I must confess it nicely fits a niche. The Eye of GNOME (eog), is a kind of clone of the Windows default picture viewer, and is a good complement for other Linux tools like ImageMagick.
I use the display tool of the ImageMagick package for highly repetitive and/or precise transformation image watching (as in putting one image above another, then watching the result, then making the composition again if it was not OK, or resizing a set of images to a given exact percent of their original size).
On the other hand, eog is nice for watching a lot of images in a row, and having them automatically resized to fit in the watch window. eog also permits smooth scrolling with the mouse wheel, very fast image rotation, and single-click window fitting of the image.
Give it a try!
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sylvainulg on 06 Jun 2007 at 11:12 am #
hmm … that sounds interesting. I’m myself a heavy user of imagemagick:display too, but it has turned pretty annoying to watch those 4Mpixel pictures that get more and more common nowadays.
Iñaki Silanes on 06 Jun 2007 at 15:01 pm #
That’s the marvel of free software: there are always more tools than you expected for any given task.
I hope you make the best of uses of eog!