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When comparing Geeqie vs Gwenview, the Slant community recommends Gwenview for most people. In the question“What are the best FOSS image viewers for UNIX-like systems?” Gwenview is ranked 11th while Geeqie is ranked 14th.
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Pros
Pro Easy navigation through directory structure, thumbnails can be kept local
Pro Able to delete multiple
If you want an editor that can delete multiple files as you scroll through the list, this seems to work well.
Pro Easy to navigate folders
Pro Quickly view image metadata
Pro Easily resize, crop, flip and rotate
Pro Keyboard shortcuts can be redefined
Pro Images can be sorted by name, date and size
Cons
Con Can not view animated .gif files
Con Has a bug that causes certain png files to show brighter than normal
The image, if is a png that contains gamma information, will appear washed out. There is still an open ticket concerning this issue.
Con Very slow on remote folders
Compared to others, like XNview, is VERY slow when retrieving images from shared folders (NFS or Samba).
Con Not lightweight
Needs a lot of KDE packages.