Re: ee should be replaced by gqview

[Miles Lane <miles megapathdsl net>]

Bart Kuik wrote:
> 
> On 21 Apr 2001 10:20:21 -0700, Miles Lane wrote:
> > On 21 Apr 2001 19:34:02 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> > > > I think the Gnome distribution should dump ee and replace by gqview. It
> > > Who uses ee ?
> > >
> > > How about eog (embedded in nautilus and standalone) ? That should be
> > > _the one_.
> >
> > eog has no image browsing capability.  I never use it.
> 
> What about Nautilus' image browsing (after the index-thumbnails are made
> it works quite fast) and Eog as standard imageviewer in Nautilus?. It
> works really great for me, and I think that one thing that must be
> avoided in a good desktop is redundancy, multiple apps that all do the
> same thing. A standard installation should provide one app for every
> task, and something like bonobo to embed the app where it's useful, ie
> as viewer in Nautilus, so that the user gets the same app every time for
> a specific filetype.

Well, there a loads of image viewers for Windoze.  There's nothing
wrong with that.  I agree that an OS needs a really good set of
default applications.  Ideally, your image viewer and editor play
nice together and the integration with Nautilus _may_ be a boon,
but I'm not sure about that.  The couple of times I've tried using
Nautilus, I haven't been totally pleased.  There is a lot of stuff 
that just seems like wasted visual space to me.  When I customize 
my Windoze environment, I always set up my filesystem browser 
windows to display lists of files and only button graphics.  
The  notion that I should browse my images using Nautilus seems 
worthwhile, but what if I then want to view images fullscreen?  
Is eog going to let me do that?  And, what if I want to cycle 
through images fullscreen as either a slideshow or using the arrow 
keys to navigate through the images?

Right now, Nautilus seems too top heavy.  There is a lot that is 
cool about it, but there are problems.  Hopefully, Eazel can last
long enough to get out Nautilus 3.0.  Maybe that revision will to
as well as Windoze 3.0 did.

	Miles