The Eye in 2.20
September 17, 2007
This is the first stable release of Eye of GNOME (EOG) as part of the GNOME 2.20 major release. The 2.20 release is very special for EOG as it’s the first one with a complete rewrite/refactoring of its core. This means that GNOME now has a much improved image viewer. There lots of cool new features, we really hope you all enjoy! Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release, specially to EOG’s team members, Claudio and Felix.
So, what’s new?
- Complete rewrite of application core which means more stable, maintanable, faster image viewer for GNOME
- New plugin system which allows developers to extend EOG’s UI and behavior. Python support is available.
- Editable application toolbar
- New image collection pane with on-demand thumbnail loading, polished look, and continuous scrolling side buttons.
- Side Pane to be extended by plugins
- New image properties dialog which replaces the image info sidepane
- Single instance D-Bus-based activation support
- Revamped error/warning UI
- “Open with” support to quickly open images on other applications
- Mouse scrollwheel improvements: HIG compliancy and zoom factor setting
- General UI polishing
- Command line options for fullscreen, slideshow and image collection disabling
- Display EXIF MakerNotes
- XMP Support