Some ideas for eog

[Tim Gerla <tim gerla net>]

Hi,

I have sort of volunteered to maintain eog; "sort of" because it 
happened in the way most maintainers seem to end up maintaining a 
project. I said something like "I miss working on GNOME. I wouldn't mind 
working on something like eog." and before I knew it, I was appointed.

A little bit of introduction is in order: I am an old-time GNOME hacker. 
I was approached by Miguel "back in the day" to port my Gtk-based CD 
player, gtcd, to GNOME. I ended up maintaining the gnome-media set of 
packages for several years.

I have a couple of ideas for eog:

1. Port the application shell to Python and pygtk. This would improve 
maintainability of the GUI sections of the code, and as long as we left 
the heavy-duty pixmap-reading code in C, there should be no performance hit.

2. Reorient eog's purpose back towards a single image viewer. Nautilus 
and f-spot can already do a great job of displaying thumbnails of a set 
of images, so eog's list view is kind of duplication of effort, and not 
very featureful compared to what f-spot and nautilus can do.

2.1. Since eog would be the premiere single-image viewer in existence, 
we could do a lot of things right, such as printing.

Thoughts, comments?

-Tim
tim gerla net