Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: [GNOME VFS] EOG instead of nautilus-image-viewer

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com> writes:  
> I think I'm going to start getting bug reports about Nautilus being
> unable to open images from people who have Nautilus installed but
> not EOG.

Nautilus should probably require EOG if we go this route.

> I think that the Nautilus viewer has features that the EOG one does
> not, but they are ones you are not yet aware of.

Losing nice features isn't good.

> I think that allowing users to choose interpolation options is a
> bizarre excess feature for a simple image viewer, and will probably
> confuse the people who notice it, but few are likely to notice it.

Choosing interpolation is dubious even in the gdk-pixbuf API, let
alone for end users!

> But despite thinking these things, I also think it's OK to delete
> the Nautilus viewer and start using the EOG one; it's nice to have
> less code total in Gnome 2.
> 

Unless the Nautilus viewer is actively broken, I'd disagree; let's fix
all those EOG issues first. They seemed pretty important; why
introduce the UI regressions.

(Note, I didn't see the original mail Darin is replying to.)

Havoc