Gwenview is an

image viewer An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that can display stored graphical images; it can often handle various graphics file formats. Such software usually renders the image according to properties of the display such as color depth ...

for

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systems (including

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) and is released as part of the

KDE Applications The KDE Gear is a set of applications and supporting libraries that are developed by the KDE community, primarily used on Linux-based operating systems but mostly multiplatform, and released on a common release schedule. The bundle is compos ...

bundle. The current maintainer is Aurélien Gâteau. The word "Gwen" means "white" in the

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and is commonly used as a first name.

History

Aurélien Gâteau started Gwenview using

GTK GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free software cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both Free software, free and ...

but switched to Qt early in development. Gwenview was first available for

K Desktop Environment 3 K Desktop Environment 3 (KDE 3) is the third series of releases of the K Desktop Environment (after that called ''KDE Software Compilation''). It was one of the two major desktop environments for GNU/Linux systems between 2002 and 2008. There ar ...

. Later it was released as part of the

KDE Software Compilation 4 KDE Software Compilation 4 (KDE SC 4) was the only series of the so-called KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC), first released in January 2008. The final release was version 4.14.3 in November 2014. It was the follow-up to K Desktop Environment 3 ...

with a simplified user interface, making it more suitable for quickly browsing through collection of images. It also provided a full-screen interface that can be used to display images as a slide-show. In 2014, Gwenview was ported to

KDE Frameworks 5 KDE Frameworks is a collection of Library (computing), libraries and software frameworks readily available to any Qt (software), Qt-based software stacks or applications on multiple operating systems. Featuring frequently needed functionality sol ...

and released as part of KDE Applications. As part of the

KDE Gear The KDE Gear is a set of applications and supporting libraries that are developed by the KDE community, primarily used on Linux-based operating systems but mostly multiplatform, and released on a common release schedule. The bundle is compos ...

, it was ported to Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 in Gear 24.02

Features

Major features include: * Directory browser *

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image (including but not limited to BMP, PNG,

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, MNG,

TIFF Tag Image File Format or Tagged Image File Format, commonly known by the abbreviations TIFF or TIF, is an image file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and photographers. TIFF is w ...

, and PSD), SVG, RAW (limited), and

video Video is an Electronics, electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving picture, moving image, visual Media (communication), media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, whi ...

support * Easy to use interface *

Metadata Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including: * Descriptive ...

comment editor *

Thumbnail Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures or videos, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words. In the age of digital images, visual search engines and image-o ...

image view of current directory * Import images from external storage * Use of

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(KDE Image Plugins Interface) plugins for manipulating images * Filtering based on

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, file name pattern, and date. * Share images to social networking sites

References

External links

* {{Image viewers and organizers Applications using D-Bus Free image viewers Graphics software that uses Qt KDE Applications

History

Features

See also

References

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