| Loupe (GNOME Image Viewer) | |
| Logo Size: | 300x300 |
| Logo Alt: | An icon with a magnifying glass over a stack of photos. The top-level photo is the only one that's visible, featuring a minimalistic, white rendition of a mountain and the sun with a purple-orange gradient in the background. |
| Screenshot Alt: | A screenshot of Loupe in GNOME 45 displaying a Wikimedia Commons image. On the right side of the window, the file's parent folder, metadata, and creation/modification dates are shown. The image within the program has two arms of differing skin tones, with the lighter having the full-text logo of Wikipedia and the darker with the Wikipedia globe. |
| Programming Language: | Rust |
| Operating System: | Linux |
| Included With: | GNOME |
| Replaces: | Eye of GNOME |
| License: | GNU General Public License version 3 |
Loupe, also known as Image Viewer, is an image viewer created for the GNOME desktop environment. It first appeared on December 26, 2020.[1] With the GNOME 45 update, Loupe became GNOME's default image viewer, replacing Eye of GNOME.[2] [3]
Like its predecessor, Loupe offers various options for viewing images. These include standard options such as zooming, rotation, and transparency. Other features include touchscreen support, metadata info, and sandboxed decoding.
Currently, Loupe supports all the formats that glycin does. These are:
Loupe is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. Written in the Rust programming language, it relies on glycin,[4] an image decoding crate.