Eye of GNOME 40 (released in 2021-03) | |
Developer(s) | The GNOME Project |
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Stable release | 41.0[1] ![]() |
Preview release | 41.beta[2] ![]() |
Repository | |
Written in | C (GTK) |
Operating system | Unix-like |
Platform | GNOME |
Type | Image viewer |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
Website | wiki |
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 gThumb that has more advanced features like image organizing and image editing 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.[3]
Eye of GNOME supports the following file formats:
Eye of GNOME also supports viewing Exif/XMP metadata associated with an image.
Eye of GNOME does not support WebP, DirectDraw Surface (.dds) or JPEG 2000, but gThumb, another official GNOME image viewer, does support at least WebP since September 2012.[5]