all image viewers are crap

alex.blackbit · Advocate Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2397

hi,

please excuse the rude subject, but hey, at least i got your attention

the short story behind this posting:
I moved from gnome to dwm and want to get rid of all applications that come with gnome.
this process is mostly finished, one of the last things that are left is the image viewer.

eog works really well, but I just don't want to install it again because of the dependencies. don't ask or argue, it's just like that, I am a strange person.
the features I want from an image viewer are:

sane default zooming (pictures that are too large to fit the window are scaled down, pictures that are smaller than the window are shown at 100% size).
one-hit keys for operations like
- toggle fullscreen
- rotate left/right by 90°
- display previous/next image in the folder where the current image is located

That's all i ask for. No thumbnail stuff, no editing features, etc.
To my surprise I didn't find one with those features except eog.
Is there any image viewer out there can can be configured to do what I want ?
I am seriously considering writing my own if I don't find one.

Any hints welcome, thanks in advance.

Princess Nell · l33t Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 916

baaann · Guru Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 558 Location: uk

I have not used it in a while but media-gfx/feh may do all you require from the command line?

xaviermiller · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:04 pm Post subject:

and what about gpicview ?
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Sadako · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:17 pm Post subject:

alex.blackbit · Advocate Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2397

thanks everybody for the replies.
I just tried ristretto, it does what I want out of the box, which is cool. The dependencies are acceptable, although something that does not depend on the xfce libs would be even greater.
feh looked very promising, I tried it some days ago but did not get warm with it.
Sadako: could you provide an example of a config file that at least steers in the direction I want my image viewer to be ?

Gusar · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:26 pm Post subject:

An oldie, but it still works and has minimal dependencies: gqview

destroyedlolo · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:04 am Post subject:

You have also GPicView which is quite similare to EoG but which is not Gnomeish ...

barul · Guru Joined: 28 May 2010 Posts: 434

I agree for gpicview.

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

Gusar · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:00 pm Post subject:

mv · Watchman Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 6747

media-gfx/pqiv

Hypnos · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 4:43 am Post subject:

I use media-gfx/viewnior -- no XFCE depenedencies
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