On Aug 26, 2014 12:13 AM, "Michael Catanzaro" <mcatanzaro(a)gnome.org>
wrote:
On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 19:12 -0400, Liam wrote:
> With regards to image previews I'd like to bring up the sushi utility.
> That would seem to provide the bare minimum reqs for a previewer, and
> doesn't require a new "app" to open. The only issue with it is that
> the utility itself is so hidden. Dolphin offers a nice way to preview
> files with their third panel, so, perhaps, something similar might be
> arranged with Nautilus in the long term?
sushi is a nice previewer, but I don't think it's a replacement for an
image viewer app any more than it's a replacement for the document
viewer or video player.
What's the use case? What functionality are the target users expecting from
an image viewer? My experience is I only ever use such apps for rather
quick assessments of images. For more than that I open a dedicated editor.
Does a image viewer need to do more than just show an image (possibly along
with metadata)?
> Your second point is one that I was about to mention myself.
Photo
> management seems like pointless bloat for a development environment,
> especially when install is so easy. The lack of such an app seems
> unlikely to halt a typical development task, and that criteria seems
> the only important consideration.
I personally don't care whether we install a photo management app or
not. It doesn't seem necessary to me, but it is something we've always
done and which our primary competitor does (Ubuntu uses Shotwell).
We've also been installing the firewall utility for awhile.
Our target audience isn't the same as Ubuntu's.