Eye of GNOME is the official and default image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment, where it is also known as Image Viewer. There is also another official image viewer for GNOME called

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that has more advanced features like image organizing and

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functions. Eye of GNOME provides basic effects for improved viewing, such as zooming, full-screen, rotation, and transparent image background control. It also has many official plug-ins to extend its features or change its behavior.

File formats

Eye of GNOME supports the following file formats: *

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– Animation *

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AV1 Image File Format * BMP – Windows Bitmap * GIF – Graphics Interchange Format * ICO – Windows Icon * JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group * PCX – PC Paintbrush * PNG – Portable Network Graphics * PNM – Portable Anymap from the PPM Toolkit * RAS –

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Raster * SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics * TGA – Truevision Targa *

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– Tagged Image File Format * WBMP – Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format *

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– X BitMap * XPM – X PixMap Eye of GNOME also supports viewing

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/XMP metadata associated with an image.

Limitations

Eye of GNOME does not support DirectDraw Surface (.dds) or JPEG 2000

References

External links

* Applications using D-Bus Free image viewers GNOME Core Applications Graphics software that uses GTK Linux image viewers Software that uses Meson {{graphics-software-stub

File formats

Limitations

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