Eye of GNOME

Eye of GNOME

Eye of GNOME on Ubuntu
Developer(s)	GNOME developers
Stable release	2.28.1 / 2009-10-20; 15 days ago
Preview release	2.29.1 / 2009-10-27; 8 days ago
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	GNOME
Type	Image viewer
License	GNU General Public License
Website	gnome.org/projects/eog

Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment. Unlike some other image viewers, Eye of GNOME will only display images. It does, however, provide basic effects for improved viewing, such as zooming, fullscreen, rotation, and transparent image background control.

File formats

Eye of GNOME supports the following file formats:

• ANI - Animation
• BMP - Windows Bitmap
• Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
• ICO - Windows Icon
• JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
• PCX - PC Paintbrush
• Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
• PNM - Portable Anymap from the PPM Toolkit
• RAS - Sun Raster
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• TGA - Targa
• Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
• Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format (WBMP)
• X BitMap (XBM)
• X PixMap (XPM)

Criticism

Eye of GNOME has been criticized for its lack of GIF animation playback^[1][2] a feature available in most image viewers.^{[citation needed]}

Also, it renders SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) as a rasterized bitmap by default.^[3] This bitmap then gets manipulated when scaling the image, resulting in pixelation when zooming in.^[4]

See also

Free software portal

• Comparison of image viewers

References

1. ^ "Idea #4580: "Image Viewer (eye of gnome) doesn't handle animated .gif files."". http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4580/. 
2. ^ "Bug #35545 in eog: "Doesn't display animated GIFs"". https://bugs.launchpad.net/eog/+bug/35545. 
3. ^ "Idea #18167: "eye of gnome doesn't render svg properly"". http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/18167/. 
4. ^ "Bug #92127 in eog: "SVG images look blurry when zoomed in"". https://bugs.launchpad.net/eog/+bug/92127. 

External links

• Official website

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