Loupe, also known as Image Viewer, is an

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created for the GNOME desktop environment. It first appeared on December 26, 2020. With the GNOME 45 update, Loupe became GNOME's default image viewer, replacing

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. Like its predecessor, Loupe offers various options for viewing images. These include standard options such as zooming, rotation, and transparency. Other features include touchscreen support, metadata info, and sandboxed decoding.

Image format support

Currently, Loupe supports all the formats that glycin does. These are: *

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* BMP * DDS * farbfeld (by

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) * QOI *

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HEIC High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) is a digital container format for storing individual digital images and image sequences. The standard covers multimedia files that can also include other media streams, such as timed text, audio and vide ...

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OpenEXR OpenEXR is a high-dynamic range, multi-channel raster file format, released as an open standard along with a set of software tools created by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), under a free software license similar to the BSD license. It is notab ...

* PNG * PNM * SVG * TGA *

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Development

Loupe is licensed under the

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General Public License v3.0. Written in the

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, it relies on glycin, an image decoding crate.

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT: GNOME Applications Free software programmed in Rust Linux image viewers 2020 software

Image format support

Development

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