Gnome image viewers

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Fri Jul 16 09:45:54 UTC 2004


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?
> 

In my experience gthumb seems to be less buggy than eog, especially in 
printing of large graphics.  eog seems to intermittently lockup during 
printing or exhibit other weird behavior... while gthumb at least works. 
  This is true of latest rawhide too...

Warren





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