Eye of GNOME facts for kids
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Eye of GNOME 40 (released in 2021–03)
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| Developer(s) | The GNOME Project |
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| Stable release |
44.3
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| Written in | C (GTK) |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Platform | GNOME |
| Successor | GNOME Loupe |
| Type | Image viewer |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
Eye of GNOME was a popular program for looking at pictures on computers. It was the main image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment. You might have known it as just Image Viewer.
Recently, a new program called Loupe has taken its place in GNOME 45. There's also another official image viewer for GNOME called gThumb. This one has more advanced tools. It can help you organize your pictures and even do some basic editing.
Eye of GNOME offered simple ways to make viewing pictures better. You could zoom in or out to see details. It also had a full-screen mode to enjoy your photos without distractions. You could easily rotate images and control how transparent backgrounds looked. Many official plug-ins (small add-on programs) were available too. These plug-ins could add new features or change how the program worked.
What Picture Formats Can It Open?
Eye of GNOME can open many different types of picture files. Each type is called a file format. Think of it like different languages for pictures. Here are some of the formats it supports:
- ANI – For animated pictures
- AVIF – A newer image format
- BMP – A common Windows picture format
- GIF – Great for simple animations
- ICO – Used for computer icons
- JPEG – Very common for photos
- PCX – An older picture format
- PNG – Good for web images with transparency
- PNM – A simple image format
- RAS – Used by Sun computers
- SVG – For pictures that can be scaled very large without losing quality
- TGA – Often used in graphics and gaming
- TIFF – A high-quality image format
- WBMP – For pictures on older mobile phones
- WebP – A modern web image format
- XBM – Used in X Window System
- XPM – Another X Window System format
Eye of GNOME can also show you metadata from pictures. Metadata is like hidden information about a photo. It can include things like when and where the picture was taken. This information is often stored in formats like Exif or XMP.
Things It Can't Open
While Eye of GNOME supports many formats, it cannot open every type of image file. For example, it does not support .dds files or JPEG 2000 files.
See also
- Comparison of image viewers
- gThumb – Another image viewer for GNOME that helps organize and edit pictures
