Linux Software

This page lists and comments interesting software on Linux

Image Viewers

Software:

Comix is a user-friendly, customizable image viewer. It is specifically designed to handle comic books, but also serves as a generic viewer.

digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux, Windows, and Mac-OSX.

F-Spot is a full-featured personal photo management application for the GNOME desktop

User comment: Haapparently the bad habit to save files without notice...

Tool focused on viewing very large collections of images at once, with smooth zooming from thumbnail down to original size

an image browser that features single click access to view images and move around the directory tree

gThumb is an image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop.

Gwenview is a fast and easy to use image viewer for KDE.

Picasa is free photo editing software from Google that makes your pictures look great.

... is a very small and pretty fast gdk/lmlib image viewer

user comment: very fast. looks very sparse to begin with, but has everything you need without cluttering up your display.

Ristretto is a fast and lightweight picture-viewer for the Xfce desktop environment

XnView is a free software to view, organise, convert graphics and photos files or to create slide show, contact sheet, HTML pages.

The historical image viewer and editor for Linux

Some reviews:

Recommends Ristretto for simple use case, and GThumb for more advanced uses.