Subject: Basic photo viewing/editing for Xfce?

[Victor Sudakov]

Chris Hill wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2020, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> 
> > Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 12:35:25 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > > > By your personal experience, what software do you use for
> > > > photos: a convenient viewer/slideshow, and a basic editor
> > > > (cropping, rotating...)? Gimp would be an overkill.
> > > 
> > > I am using xv since 1990 and think it's still the
> > > best for viewing and basic tasks.
> > 
> > Oh, I forgot about xv. I did use it 20 years ago. Glad it's still there.
> > Thank you, I'll go with xv for editing, just have to hope it does not
> > corrupt more recent JPEGs.
> 
> I've been using xv for many years, and I have never had a problem with it
> failing to read JPEGs. 

It's not a failure to read that bothers me, it's the possibility of
corruption of some information in a JPEG (meta information, geoposition,
tags etc). If I touch an image with xv and it corrupts/removes the info
a modern JPEG contains, this will be unpleasant.


-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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