Eye of GNOME

Eye of GNOME is the official and default image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment, where it is also known as Image Viewer. There is also another official image viewer for GNOME called gThumb that has more advanced features like image organizing and image editing functions.

Image Viewer
Eye of GNOME 3.32
Developer(s)The GNOME Project
Stable release3.38.3[1] (29 January 2021 (2021-01-29)) [±]
Preview release40.alpha[2] (26 January 2021 (2021-01-26)) [±]
Repository
Written inC (GTK)
Operating systemUnix-like
PlatformGNOME
TypeImage viewer
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitewiki.gnome.org/Apps/EyeOfGnome

Eye of GNOME provides basic effects for improved viewing, such as zooming, full-screen, rotation, and transparent image background control. It also has many official plug-ins to extend its features or change its behavior.[3]

File formats

Eye of GNOME supports the following file formats:

  • ANI – Animation
  • BMP – Windows Bitmap
  • GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
  • ICO – Windows Icon
  • JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group
  • PCX – PC Paintbrush
  • PNG – Portable Network Graphics
  • PNM – Portable Anymap from the PPM Toolkit
  • RAS – Sun Raster
  • SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics
  • TGA – Truevision Targa
  • TIFF – Tagged Image File Format
  • WBMP – Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format[4]
  • XBM – X BitMap
  • XPM – X PixMap

Eye of GNOME also supports viewing Exif/XMP metadata associated with an image.

Limitations

Eye of GNOME does not support WebP, DirectDraw Surface (.dds) or JPEG 2000, but gThumb another official GNOME image viewer, does support at least WebP since September 2012.[5]

See also

References
  1. Catanzaro, Michael (29 January 2021). "GNOME 3.38.3 released!". GNOME Mail Services (Mailing list). Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  2. Petridis, Jordan (26 January 2021). "GNOME 40.alpha Released". GNOME Mail Services (Mailing list). Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  3. "Debian -- Details of package eog-plugins in bullseye". Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  4. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/eog/-/blob/master/NEWS#L4717
  5. "[gthumb-list] gThumb 3.1.1 released". Retrieved 2 May 2020.
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