Gwenview Explained

Gwenview
KDE Applications
Author:	Aurélien Gâteau
Developer:	KDE
Programming Language:	C++
Platform:	KDE Frameworks 5
Genre:	Image viewer
License:	GPL-2.0-only or GPL-3.0-only

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Features

Major features include:

• Directory browser
• Raster image (including but not limited to BMP, PNG, JPEG, GIF, MNG, TIFF, and PSD), SVG, RAW (limited), 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
• digiKam
• gThumb

Notes and References

1. Web site: KDE 4.1 Release Announcement. KDE. 2008-07-29.
2. Web site: KDE Ships KDE Applications 14.12.0. KDE. 2014-12-17.