View, edit, and present images using gThumb
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Like all desktops in Linux, the Gnome desktop comes with many of its own programs. The gThumb image viewer is a pearl among these applications.
Image viewers in Linux are a dime a dozen. Some of these programs provide additional functions that make using a full-fledged image editing program unnecessary. gThumb [1] offers a particularly successful combination of image viewing and image editing for everyday use. It underwent a complete redesign together with numerous new functions on migration to Gtk3.
Since version 3.0.0, gThumb has used the Gtk3 toolkit from Gnome. The current version 3.4.1 works best in desktop environments such as Gnome or Cinnamon. When combined with other desktops, there may be problems with window dressing and widgets, but they can be resolved using a patch [2].
The Interface
The program welcomes you with an interface that needs some getting used to. It complies with the Gnome conventions introduced in version 3. In image editing mode, gThumb displays the current image file top left in the window, while a bar with previews of the remaining images in the active folder appears at the bottom across the width (Figure 1).
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