gThumb I'm using it tonight
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| Steven_Rosenber Nov 19, 2009 10:49 PM EDT |
In all my bellyaching over image editors in Linux that don't obliterate the IPTC metadata in JPEGs, nobody mentioned gThumb. It's surprisingly powerful for an "image viewer." It's not quite IrfanView (which along with Notepad++ is the only other Windows app I swear by), but gThumb does the basics quite well: resize, crop, add an IPTC caption (though not an IPTC credit, which I can live with), not destroy an IPTC caption. Really, that's all I need, and it's damn hard to find in just about any other FOSS application. digiKam does all of this, but it's much more complicated. I could possibly go back to digiKam at this point, but gThumb is just so darn easy ... I'm cutting images in gThumb tonight. I've still got a few things to figure out. It's nice to see that gThumb is still under development: http://gthumb.sourceforge.net/news.html (I wondered a bit about that.) Like I say in the overly long post this is based on, I'm OK with Ubuntu dumping GIMP -- It's easy enough to add, but I really think they should dump F-Spot and replace it with gThumb. GThumb = no Mono, more features, no pesky database ... |
| techiem2 Nov 19, 2009 11:16 PM EDT |
I've mainly been using gqview for my basic image stuffs. I read over the article and decided to give gthumb a try as well to see how it behaves. |
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