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When comparing photoqt 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 photoqt is ranked 12th.
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Pros
Pro Highly customizable
Pro Support many image formats
Pro Simple
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 Windowed mode is a little bit awkward
By default it hides your window manager frame so there is only basic window management features provided(what it says in the setting).
But you have an option to show the system's window manager frame if you want.
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.