On Aug 26, 2014 12:13 AM, "Michael Catanzaro" <mcatanzaro@gnome.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
What's the use case? What functionality are the target users expecting from an image viewer? My experience is I only ever use such apps for rather quick assessments of images. For more than that I open a dedicated editor.
Does a image viewer need to do more than just show an image (possibly along with metadata)?

> > 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).
>
We've also been installing the firewall utility for awhile.
Our target audience isn't the same as Ubuntu's.