Really good alternative to Irfan view

[mojo risin]

Hi I have been looking through the depositories for a good alternative to Irfan view, and tried a couple:


but first my requirements (what I want to do with it)
opening of images, easy resizing, and correcting, easy cropping, pasting of screenshots.

what I found so far

Gimp(which I know from windows already: way too voluminous to use it only for resizing)
gwen view: seems to be sluggishly slow and the resizing is too simplistic
fzero: can't paste and can't resize
gthumb: does not seem to support pasting and the short cuts are not really that intuitive and one can't open a single image via the menu.
digikam , haven't tried it yet but looks like it is as voluminous as gimp and also a photo manager. I don't need photo managers I can manage my photos myself!

Havent tried the others yet.

on wine: There is some issue which I havent fixed between wine and my system scheme. There seems to be a misunderstanding between my ttf tahoma and wine which jumbles up the display of fonts in systems and ,especially bad in the browser.

[Danish989]

bump?

[lykeion]

Some more alternatives:
KuickShow (Note: it's a KDE application). Read about it here (http://kuickshow.sourceforge.net), install it from repo.
XnView has released XnViewMP 0.32 Beta for Linux. Read about and download from here (http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewforum.php?f=60).

You can find more graphic applications at GnomeFiles.org (http://gnomefiles.org/) or KDE-apps.org (http://kde-apps.org/)

Personally I use gThumb 2.10.11 and don't agree about you it being non-intuitive. And what do you mean by pasting screenshots?
I usually take a screenshot with PrScr or Alt+PrScr button and save it to Desktop. Then I can open it with any application I'd like.

[A_T]

Pinta looks promising.

[wubijacq]

XnViewMP is not Irfanview or ACDsee. If you need debian package of XnViewMP-032b you may see here:
http://www.wubijacq.com/xnviewmp/
or just the tarball:
http://download.xnview.com/XnViewMP-linux.tgz

[JustinR]

Pinta looks promising.

I'd like to see how that turns out when it finally hits version 1.0.

[hhh]

You can use IrfanView on Linux via Wine...
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine/IrfanView
http://www.irfanview.com/faq.htm#Q53
http://www.wine-reviews.net/applications/irfanview-410-on-linux-with-wine.html
http://www.boekhoff.info/?pid=linux&tip=install-irfan-view-on-linux

-edit- aaaaaa, crap. I missed the line about your font problems with Wine. Sorry.

[pricetech]

Is a virtual windows machine an option for you ??

I use IrfanView as well and have never found anything that suits me as well as it does.

I've taken to using it in an XP VM for those times I want to do what it does best.

[NightwishFan]

How is gimp hard? Open file, scale image, save.

[wubijacq]

http://www.wubijacq.com/creerunpaquetdeb/bv000001.thumb.jpg install xnviewmp without a DEB: (http://www.wubijacq.com/topic3/)
http://www.wubijacq.com/topic3/ (http://www.wubijacq.com/topic3/)

[lykeion]

Okay found another one that you might try: Viewnior (http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior/)

[earthpigg]

i use kolourpaint for those things you described. it's only downside, for me, is that it's kde. not a big deal, though. i always end up with kde libs installed anyways, as k3b is the only dvd burning tool that recognizes my external usb dvd burner...