Gnome image viewers

[Warren Togami]

Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 12:45, Warren Togami wrote:
> 
>>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...
> 
> 
> In my experience, and just verified by looking what eog does nowadays
> (==not much), eog and gthumb cannot be even compared. Gthumb is what I
> call an image viewer application, eog is a dumb "open this one image for
> me" application. If you ask me, eog as an image viewer application is 2
> megabytes of wasted diskspace. Ok since it's used by nautilus then
> that's a justification for it's existence but can we please throw it out
> of the menu and replace it with gthumb as the default "Image Viewer"
> application?
> 
> 	- Panu -

Totally in agreement, can we make gthumb default instead of eog for FC3?

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com