Image Viewer

Eye of GNOME 40 (released in 2021-03)
Developer(s)	The GNOME Project
Stable release	41.0[1]  / 18 September 2021; 7 months ago (18 September 2021)
Preview release	41.beta[2]  / 14 August 2021; 8 months ago (14 August 2021)
Repository	gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/eog.git
Written in	C (GTK)
Operating system	Unix-like
Platform	GNOME
Type	Image viewer
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Website	wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EyeOfGnome

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]

File formats

Eye of GNOME supports the following file formats:

Eye of GNOME also supports viewing Exif/XMP metadata associated with an image.

Limitations

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]