Which is better? eog or gThumb?

[Arktis]

Recently I've dumped the eog (default image preview program for gnome) file association with images in favor of gThumb, which in my opinion is way better. It actually shows animated gifs properly and has a few more features.

Try it for yourself; right-click on an image file and select properties, then click the 'opens with' tab and select gThumb. Double click image files of that type to open them in gThumb just as they would be opened in eog.

I think eog should be dropped and gThumb should take it's place as the default. It's already installed along side of it anyways and IMHO there is no need for both; one is obviously better than the other and can do everything you could possibly need plus a few extras. Plus you can completely remove eog from your system without having to sacrifice anything else along with it.

So, which do you think is better? Should eog be dropped in favor of gThumb?

[magnusbb]

I disagree. In my experience Eog does the job. I don't need various options for altering the pictures - I want to see them, present them, and in a quick way. I cannot use the scroll wheel to zoom pictures in gThumb, it isn't that snappy on my computer as Eog is, and generally it is not as logical in it's design as Eog is.

For real image management, I have yet to find a decent application on the Linux plattform. At this time, I happen to use Google's excellent Picasa2 through WINE, and it works great! So, as long as we're talking image viewing, I'll stick to Eog.

[arctic]

Both tools are fine. Most users will only want to see one picture at a time, not a whole directory. So keep it as it is. gThumb is superior, but more than many people really need.

As a journalist, I prefer gThumb for browsing through pictures I took and archiving them.

[darkmatter]

Most users will only want to see one picture at a time, not a whole directory.

gThumb is better in many ways... however, on the above point, the current eog has an 'image collection' browser. at the bottom of the window that displays all the thumbs for that diectory, and allows you o browse the displayed image with the scrollwheel.

Personally, I like them both, as each has its use.

Though I prefer f-spot for my image collections.

[landotter]

neither.

GQview is fast as a bat outta hell, and a great image viewer with a similar "film strip" approach as GThumb.

Gthumb is still nice for fast machines and does great web albums. However GQview makes a much smarter default image viewer, imho.

[fuscia]

gqview does it for me.

[Arktis]

I disagree. In my experience Eog does the job.

Not for viewing animated gifs. Majorly annoying.

Both tools are fine. Most users will only want to see one picture at a time, not a whole directory.

The gThumb devs must have thought of this, because if gThumb is set as the defualt image viewer, you are presented with a simple one image veiw almost identical to eog. Set it as the default and double click an image file as I suggested in my first post - see for yourself.

GQview is fast as a bat outta hell, and a great image viewer with a similar "film strip" approach as GThumb.

Gthumb is still nice for fast machines and does great web albums. However GQview makes a much smarter default image viewer, imho.

Sounds good. I'll have to check that out, since magnusbb raised the issue that gThumb has speed issues on his hardware, maybe GQView is the better choice.

Edit: nope... gqview's interface is too overwhelming when you just wanna do a quick preview. It also does not fully handle animated gifs.

[ComplexNumber]

i voted for "gThumb is superior and there is no need for eog at all". gthunb is the best image viewer on linux. better than eog and all the many kde one's.

[GazaM]

For anyone running Dapper, or anyone willing to compile the latest version manually if on breezy or another distro, go and try the latest F-Spot right now. It's an amazingly good app, one of the greatest on any platform, rivalling Googles Picasa2.

One thing I didn't realise about F-Spot (which I only found whilst using Alacarte to edit my menus) was that F-Spot can be used to view single files once off, with a simplified interface a la EOG. Once I found this I promptly opened up Synaptic and uninstalled both EOG and gThumb. The only thing I will say about it is that it doesn't seem to play animated gif's and I'm not sure what the plans on this are from the devs.

Either way, F-Spot rocks... It's a pity it may not become default for a while due to mono dependencies, but it's inevitable when the quality is this good.

[Virogenesis]

I personaly like pornview and f-spot.
Pornview is fantasic for browsering pics and f-spot is the dogs bollocks when it comes to sorting pictures personaly I'd say f-spot is best for most users.