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When comparing Ristretto 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 Ristretto is ranked 19th.
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Pros
Pro Fast startup
Pro Lightweight
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 Lack of critical shortcuts and functions like moving the image up and down once zoomed (something like Alt+Down/PgDown on some viewers)
Con Crashes sometimes on large images
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.