Need simple image viewer with rename

**williewiskers** · January 15th, 2011

I have switched from windows to ubuntu 10.10 and i need a program that allows me to view a directory of images, scroll through them one-by-one and easily rename the file as im viewing it. Would be nice if the program also allowed me add text to the image and rotate it, much the way Google Picasa does. Would be ideal if did all that and organized my pictures directory.

Guess i basically want Picasa in Ubuntu...

**smartbei** · January 15th, 2011

Sounds like gthumb does most of what you want - available in the repos.

If you want something more powerful, you can try the Shotwell Photo Manager that comes with ubuntu - it creates a DB of photos for easy management. Try them out [it only takes a second] and decide.

There is also F-Spot, which used to be included in ubuntu by default, but I think Shotwell is better.

lastly, you can try running Picasa on Wine - it is supposed to work fine, and if that is what you are used to, what could be better?

**smartbei** · January 15th, 2011

Sounds like gthumb does most of what you want - available in the repos.

If you want something more powerful, you can try the Shotwell Photo Manager that comes with ubuntu - it creates a DB of photos for easy management. Try them out [it only takes a second] and decide.

There is also F-Spot, which used to be included in ubuntu by default, but I think Shotwell is better.

lastly, you can try running Picasa on Wine - it is supposed to work fine, and if that is what you are used to, what could be better?

EDIT - Sorry about the multi-post... no idea how that happened!

**smartbei** · January 15th, 2011

Sounds like gthumb does most of what you want - available in the repos.

If you want something more powerful, you can try the Shotwell Photo Manager that comes with ubuntu - it creates a DB of photos for easy management. Try them out [it only takes a second] and decide.

There is also F-Spot, which used to be included in ubuntu by default, but I think Shotwell is better.

lastly, you can try running Picasa on Wine - it is supposed to work fine, and if that is what you are used to, what could be better?