Gwenview

Gwenview

Gwenview in KDE SC 4
Original author(s)	Aurélien Gâteau
Developer(s)	KDE
Stable release	16.04.0 (20 April 2016 (2016-04-20)) [±]
Development status	Active
Written in	C++
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	KDE Frameworks 5
Type	Image viewer
License	GNU GPL
Website	userbase.kde.org/Gwenview

Gwenview is an image viewer for Unix-like systems (including Linux) and is released as part of the KDE Applications bundle. The current maintainer is Aurélien Gâteau. The word "Gwen" means "white" in the Breton language and is commonly used as a first name.

History

Gwenview was first available for K Desktop Environment 3. Later it was released as part of the KDE Software Compilation 4 with a simplified user interface, making it more suitable for quickly browsing through collection of images. It also provided a full-screen interface that can be used to display images as a slide-show. In 2014, Gwenview was ported to KDE Frameworks 5 and released as part of KDE Applications.

Features

Major features include:

• Directory browser
• Image, SVG and video support
• Easy to use interface
• Metadata comment editor
• Thumbnail image view of current directory
• Import images from external storage
• Use of KIPI (KDE Image Plugins Interface) plugins for manipulating images
• Filtering based on file type, file name pattern, and date.
• Share images to social networking sites

See also

• Comparison of image viewers

External links

• Gwenview homepage
• Gwenview in KDE.org