Gnome image viewers

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 12:45, Warren Togami wrote:
> Louis Garcia wrote:
> > Why are there two image viewers for gnome. Eog and gthumb basically do
> > the same thing. I personally like gthumb as eog ui can use some work. As
> > I understand eog is used as a bonobo component for nautilus to display
> > images in the nautilus window. Why can't we just move the bonobo
> > component to gthumb and kill eog?
> > 
> 
> In my experience gthumb seems to be less buggy than eog, especially in 
> printing of large graphics.  eog seems to intermittently lockup during 
> printing or exhibit other weird behavior... while gthumb at least works. 
>   This is true of latest rawhide too...

In my experience, and just verified by looking what eog does nowadays
(==not much), eog and gthumb cannot be even compared. Gthumb is what I
call an image viewer application, eog is a dumb "open this one image for
me" application. If you ask me, eog as an image viewer application is 2
megabytes of wasted diskspace. Ok since it's used by nautilus then
that's a justification for it's existence but can we please throw it out
of the menu and replace it with gthumb as the default "Image Viewer"
application?

	- Panu -