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This page lists and comments interesting software on Linux
Image Viewers
Reviews
- Comparison of image viewers on Wikipedia
- 10 Best Image Viewers for Linux - TechCityInc
- What is a good image viewer? « Linux Photography
- Recommends Ristretto for simple use case, and gThumb for more advanced uses.
Image Managers
- 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: Has apparently the bad habit to save files without notice...
- My comment: Extremely bad! Can't browse a complete folder with a simple click on a photo in the folder and can't access the full interface. Very slow. Crappy slideshow with fade-in fade-out that can't be disabled at first sight!
- XnView is a free software to view, organise, convert graphics and photos files or to create slide show, contact sheet, HTML pages.
Middle Solutions
- 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.
- My comment: Very promising! Fast image viewer, easy browsing, can view all the photos in one folder by clicking a file in Nautilus, and then go back to the full interface (à la ACDSee).
- Gwenview is a fast and easy to use image viewer for KDE.
Simple Viewers
- Comix - GTK Comic Book Viewer
- Comix is a user-friendly, customizable image viewer. It is specifically designed to handle comic books, but also serves as a generic viewer.
- Eye of Gnome - The GNOME Image Viewer
- The Eye of GNOME image viewer is the official image viewer for the GNOME Desktop environment
- My comment: Interesting! Fast simple little image viewer. Default image viewer in GNOME.
- Tool focused on viewing very large collections of images at once, with smooth zooming from thumbnail down to original size
- Picasa from Google
- Picasa is free photo editing software from Google that makes your pictures look great.
- QIV - Quick Image Viewer
- ... 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.
- My comment: Very interesting! Very fast command-line image viewer. Type
qiv -tf *to view all photos in current folder in full screen mode and best-fit zoom. Press F1 for help.
- Ristretto is a fast and lightweight picture-viewer for the Xfce desktop environment
- The historical image viewer and editor for Linux
Web Tools
- Web Developer Tools ([1]), including
- Dean Edwards Javascript Compressor
- Css Minifier
- Css Button Generator
- Cool Button Generator
- RGB / HEX Color chart
- VTE Terminal
- WYSIWYG HTML 5 Editor