Nithin Kamath’s Weblog

Finally, I found a simple and really fast image viewer for my gnome desktop - GPicView. The first impression I got of this software was that this looked very much similar to the Microsoft Image and Fax Viewer, and the layout of the buttons is quite similar to it.

Before coming across GPicView I was using ‘Eye of Gnome’ for viewing images and photos. But some how or the other I felt it was a bit slow to start up and use. But GPicView, though not as polished as the other software is a no nonsense approach to image viewing. It just has a few options to offer, but it does what it is designed to do - that is view images and pictures. A must have program, given its small footprint and the small install files size. The best things about GPicView is its really fast load time on low end machines with very less RAM.

The features of the program are as below (taken from the sites homepage, link provided at the bottom of the post):

• Extremely lightweight and fast with low memory usage
• Very suitable for default image viewer of desktop system
• Simple and intuitive interface
• Minimal lib dependency: Only pure GTK+ is used
• Desktop independent: Doesn’t require any specific desktop environment
• Open source, licensed under GNU GPL

I download the rpm for my Suse 10.2 from the http://rpm.pbone.net/ site.

You can find more information about this project at its home page - http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/.