On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hey,
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> Hi all,
>
> In Fedora 20, Shotwell was the default image viewer and no other image
> viewer was installed. In F21 Shotwell is still the default, but now
> Image Viewer (eog) is installed as well. This doesn't make any sense
> since Image Viewer serves no purpose unless it's the default image
> handler, whereas Shotwell is more useful for previewing and organizing a
> collection of photos.
>
> We've also recently noticed that gthumb looks like a nice alternative to
> Shotwell. I propose we do one of the following:
>
> * Replace Shotwell with gthumb, and remove Image Viewer.
> * Replace Shotwell with gthumb, but keep Image Viewer as the default
> image viewer.
> * Remove Shotwell, and keep Image Viewer as the only image viewer.
>
> Opinions welcome.
>
> You might notice that I'm gunning for Shotwell here. It looks a lot
> older than gthumb, and seems to have mostly the same functionality.
> (Make sure to check out gthumb in F21, not F20. You wouldn't know they
> were the same app due to the huge changes.) Image Viewer, in contrast,
> is a simple app for just previewing images, which is a different
> purpose, but I think gthumb can also serve this purpose just as well
> while looking nicer.
>
> There are other options, of course, which I am less fond of:
>
> * Remove Image Viewer. (Shotwell remains.)
> * Make Image Viewer the default image viewer. (Shotwell remains.)
>
> Either of these would be more sensible than keeping Image Viewer if it
> is not the default image viewer.
>
> GNOME Photos is notably not one of the apps we're considering. We've
> been told it's not ready yet.
A couple of things:
- We used shotwell's viewer, not shotwell by default. It's a different mode of
the same binary, but it's not shotwell itself.
- eog was already installed by default when we added Shotwell to F16, and shotwell
was made the default for the image types it handled
So my questions would be:
- Is gnome-photos going to have a "display/preview" mode, that doesn't
import in the
library? Something that's fast enough to launch for multiple images? Can we yield
on
that?
- Is gnome-documents going to get similar support for opening PDFs/etc. without opening
them
(but giving the opportunity to add them to the "library")?
Does it support opening multiple documents at once?
- Should we remove evince from the default installation then?
Not unless documents is usable for multi page documents (See
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710043 and
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689041)
But that aside I don't think using a "management app" for simple
viewing is a good idea unless it has a preview mode that does not have
all the "bloat" (i.e what you wrote above).