On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 08:13 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 
> On 08/17/2016 03:25 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 21:12:04 -0400 Robert Moskowitz <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > For the longest time I used gthumb for picture viewer.  I even installed
> > > a gnome app on my Xfce desktop with Fedora21, but I did not like what
> > > they did to gthumb in Fedora22.  I almost shudder to think what it looks
> > > like in F24 (though I could try the liveCD and see...).
> > > 
> > > Anyway, Ristretto in Xfce is really not adequate, so I am asking really
> > > nicely, please for recommendations.
> > I guess it depends on what exactly you mean by "adequate" but I use 
> > gpicview. My guess is that it is perhaps even less than adequate for you, 
> > but it gets the jobs done for me.
> 
> Valid point.  I 'grew up' with gthumb with all those years of using 
> gnome until I bailed with F21 for Xfce.  The switch to Xfce was driven 
> by my work with the Fedroa-arm builds and on armv7 chips, you really 
> don't want to run gnome.  Those early arm builds all had Xfce and I 
> liked it.  So for a while I still used gthumb, but came to dislike it 
> with F22.
> 
> So what do I want a picture viewer to provide:
> 
> A directory tree view so I can go through all of my picture directories 
> easily.
> A thumbprint view so I can scan down easily for the pictures I want to 
> see/show.
> A full screen pic viewer that offers editing and printing.
> Slideshow function and support animated gifs (I encountered one viewer 
> somewhere that did not)
> 
> Not a big list.  gthumb on F21 was just right, but with F22 became too 
> feature rich (but was really good for printing).

One more thing I'd like but haven't found anywhere yet:

A way to reorder the pictures in a directory (like a slide show) but
actually assign regular names so they maintain the lexical ordering. I
have a large number of old slides I've scanned and want to re-order
them by their chronological date, but of course they have no
timestamps.

poc
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