Basic photo viewing/editing for Xfce?

[Tim Daneliuk]

GIMP
On January 11, 2020 1:13:28 PM Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 19:19:51 +0100, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions
> stated:
>> On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 00:40:04 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
>>> Polytropon wrote:
>>>> > By your personal experience, what software do you use for photos:
>>>> > a convenient viewer/slideshow, and a basic editor (cropping,
>>>> > rotating...)?
>>>>
>>>> In the past I've been using xzgv (here: "xzgv -tzf <files>",
>>>> to be exact), but the versions after 0.8_9 have been
>>>> continuously disimproved. That's why today I'd say EOG or
>>>> Geeqie; I hope I got the spelling right because it's not
>>>> that easy to remember all those strangely spelled made-up
>>>> names...
>>>>
>>>> Both support manual and automatic "slide change" as well
>>>> as fullscreen modes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Gimp would be an overkill.
>>>>
>>>> I'm using Gimp. ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Have you considered trying Krita?
>>>>
>>>> There's also Pinta and DigiKam, but I have never used them,
>>>
>>> Wow! They have so many dependencies, I'd rather use gimp :-) Still,
>>> it's too complicated.
>>>
>>
>> If disk space isn't an issue, don't care about the amount of
>> dependencies. In my experiences with Linux, _not with FreeBSD_
>> machines_, GIMP way more often tends to be broken, than Krita does.
>> OTOH Krita's pitfall are display colour settings.
>> Unlikely GIMP or Krita will be to complicated for your propose after
>> using them a few times to crop and rotated pictures, but unfortunately
>> they are a PITA to use as an image viewer, since it takes way to long
>> to load a picture.
>> I've got nearly all available Linux viewers installed, non of them is
>> to my taste. However, if you want to do simple editing and fast
>> viewing, consider to sync with a smart phone or tablet PC ;).
>> A problem with at least iPadOS is the HEIC format and while I'm on a
>> rolling Linux release (Arch Linux), I still needed to build...
>>
>> $ sudo pacman -Syu
>> [snip]
>> warning: ifuse: local (1.1.3.r6.ge75d32c-1) is newer than community
>> (1.1.3-6)
>> [snip]
>>
>> ..ifuse myself. Not necessarily needed to sync pictures, but other sync
>> options come with pitfalls, too. Using it is a PITA, but fortunately
>> iPadOS allows to connect to a shared external drive. I don't know if
>> iOS and Android allow this, too.
>>
>> I do understand that you want to do it with FreeBSD. I would like to do
>> it with Linux. Since FreeBSD and Linux software doesn't provide what we
>> want to do, this is a workaround.
>>
>> One machine not necessarily needs to do a good job for everything. My
>> dishwasher isn't that good, when using it as a sandwich toaster.
>
> I have used a lot of different image viewers and editors over the
> years. I always find myself coming back to Adobe Photoshop. It is not
> free of course; however, there are numerous cost effective leasing
> plans available. The only real downside is that it is not compatible
> with FreeBSD. The question you have to ask yourself is which is more
> important to you, cost or usability?
>
> --
> Jerry