Linux is lacking in image viewing

[the lemming]

Or is it?

I have been trying to experiment with F-Spot and gThumb but I am not iplressed by them.

For one, I'm having great trouble learning how to use them. And the other reason is that they are exceptionally slow tools compared even to the free-bee viewing tool on XP.

I have well over a gig of ram but am having trouble viewing my images. I'll admit that I expected problems with my RAW photos but not with the JPEGS.

Can anybody recommend anything suitable to view images?

I've heard that Google Picasso can work on Linux. Could somebody please tell me how I could install it?

Cheers

[Swab]

http://picasa.google.com/linux/download.html

Download the deb file. Instructions for installing are provided after the download starts.

[ghevan]

Try GQview, available on synaptic.

qiv is faster, but I had some issues with bigger images (6000px 4500px) I couldn't pan using the maouse. BUt Imay be remembering wrong.
more info on them? google :]

[luca_linux]

I agree with the lemming.
GQView is nice, but not complete anyway.
Picasa is kinda heavy.
Maybe DigiKam is the best at the moment.

[avik]

If all you want to do is view images (as opposed to edit or organize them), why don't you use the include Eye of Gnome (eog)? Just double-click on any image to view it using eog.

It's basically the same as the Image Viewer in Windows, except it accepts more formats and have some pretty cool features.

[leibowitz]

Try Mirage
http://mirageiv.berlios.de/

[airtonix]

yeah picasa sucks.....memory hog and its actually a wine app.