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GQview is the predecessor to Geeqie. It had been developed from 1998 to 2006 by John Ellis, the last release being in December 2006. Efforts to contact Ellis since then proved unsuccessful, so a group of interested developers forked the GQview code, adopted the name Geeqie, and set about enhancing
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may be displayed in a side panel. If an image has GPS coordinates embedded, its position will be displayed on the map - if Image Direction is encoded, that will be displayed also. If an image does not have embedded GPS coordinates, it may be dragged-and-dropped onto the map to encode its
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Geeqie sessions can be remotely controlled from external software, so it can be used as an image-viewer component of a bigger application.
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Tags, both predefined and custom, can be assigned to images, and stored either as image metadata (where the file format allows),
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Basic editing in the form of lossless 90/180-degree rotation and flipping is supported; external programs such as
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embedded in an image along with the system monitor profile (or a user-specified monitor profile)
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Geeqie includes a 'find duplicates' tool which can compare images using a variety of criteria (
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Geeqie has been generally well received in the technical press. A 2012 review in
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toolkit. In September 2015, development was moved from SourceForge to GitHub.
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review called Geeqie an "indispensable tool", "lightning fast". A 2012
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Images can be displayed singly in normal or fullscreen mode; static or
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Images may be given a rating value (also known as a "star rating").
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package was provided as a shortcut to Geeqie for easier upgrade.
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claiming to be the best image viewer / photo collection browser
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said it is "highly recommended, if not best in class". A 2011
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said it "doesn't offer much more than system default apps".
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mode; in sets of two or four per page for comparison; or as
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viewer on Linux right now". A negative review in 2010 from
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review noted that Geeqie seems to be "the only up-to-date
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Advanced searching is available using criteria such as
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Index

GQview


Developer(s)
Stable release
Repository
geeqie.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=geeqie.git
C
Operating system
Unix-like
Type
Image viewers
License
GPL-2.0-or-later
www.geeqie.org
free software
image viewer
image organiser
Unix-like
Linux
OS X
fork
GTK
raster
vector
3FR
ANI
ARW
AVIF
BMP

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