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GQview

Posted Mar 24, 2004 0:12 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Image Viewers by Quazatron
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Image Viewers

I did try GQview, actually. In the end, I dropped a few pure image viewers from the article (which is plenty long already) and GQview was one of those.

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GQview

Posted Mar 24, 2004 1:33 UTC (Wed) by mbp (subscriber, #2737) [Link]

I use GQview with a hotkey bound to open the image in the GIMP. If the GIMP is already open, it loads it into the existing session, which takes much less than a second on my three-year-old machine.

I also have hotkeys bound to scripted commands for common operations like rotate left, right, etc. I guess if I were really keen I could make some of the commands go through Script-Fu to run arbitrary GIMP operations.

It seems more unixy (in a good way) to have a viewer call a powerful editor rather than having a half-assed editor in the viewer.

GQview

Posted Mar 24, 2004 1:34 UTC (Wed) by mbp (subscriber, #2737) [Link]

In the end, I dropped a few pure image viewers

Why is it called the Guide to Image Viewers then?