Looking for an image viewer with certain features

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Greetings, Hatfolk,

Despite the apparent abundance of image viewers for Linux, I can’t seem to find any with all of the following features:

  • Can remember its last window size (or at least whether it’s been maximized)

  • File navigation with the scroll wheel

  • Basic image-editing capabilities, e.g.: crop, resize, export to another format

  • Toolkit-agnostic dark mode (so Gwenview is out)

Ideally, it also should be FOSS, not be abandonware, and have native Wayland support.

Anything y’all would recommend?

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You didn’t mention colour management in Wayland, which appears to a work in progress. From https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/12-years-of-incubating-wayland-color-management.html —

The color-management Wayland extension is enough for entertainment purposes like games and movies. However, it is not enough for professional color management needs including photo editing and print preview. The major missing piece is the ability to measure the display response. Every monitor is unique, and measuring is the only way to achieve reliably repeatable and accurate display behavior.

I worked with false-color remote sensing imagery. SGI and then Apple systems provided consistent colours across individual workstations at a time when Windows and Linux systems did not. We tried colorimeters, but users didn’t like what it did to document viewers and web sites, so ended up using iMacs for imagery.

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Try nomacs: dnf install nomacs

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To be honest, I’m out of the loop here, as I don’t deal with graphics professionally. Nonetheless, thank you for the information. A Linux moment, I guess… And something to look forward to.

Curiously enough, I did come across nomacs earlier, but ended up dismissing it (IIRC) because its Flathub page claimed the last version came out over a decade (!) ago.

Following your advice, I’ve installed nomacs with dnf (the latest v3.22.0 from around 3 months ago), and… it turned out to be pretty damn good. Thanks! Marking as the solution.

That said, if anyone has other image viewers to recommend, don’t hesitate to comment!

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Ah, that takes me back to my Windows days when XnView used to be my image viewer of choice… Too bad it’s not FOSS. But they provide an official AppImage, as it turns out, and it even managed to launch on F43 without complaining about missing FUSE – a pleasant surprise.

Thanks for the suggestion!