On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 19:12 -0400, Liam wrote:
With regards to image previews I'd like to bring up the sushi
utility.
That would seem to provide the bare minimum reqs for a previewer, and
doesn't require a new "app" to open. The only issue with it is that
the utility itself is so hidden. Dolphin offers a nice way to preview
files with their third panel, so, perhaps, something similar might be
arranged with Nautilus in the long term?
sushi is a nice previewer, but I don't think it's a replacement for an
image viewer app any more than it's a replacement for the document
viewer or video player.
Your second point is one that I was about to mention myself. Photo
management seems like pointless bloat for a development environment,
especially when install is so easy. The lack of such an app seems
unlikely to halt a typical development task, and that criteria seems
the only important consideration.
I personally don't care whether we install a photo management app or
not. It doesn't seem necessary to me, but it is something we've always
done and which our primary competitor does (Ubuntu uses Shotwell).