Eye of GNOME is the former default image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment, where it had also been known as Image Viewer. It has been superseded by Loupe in GNOME 45. There is also another official image viewer for GNOME called gThumb that has more advanced features like image organizing and image editing functions.
Eye of GNOME provides basic effects for improved viewing, such as zooming, full-screen, rotation, and transparent image background control. It also has many official plug-ins to extend its features or change its behavior.
File formats Eye of GNOME supports the following file formats:
ANI – Animation AVIF AV1 Image File Format BMP – Windows Bitmap GIF – Graphics Interchange Format ICO – Windows Icon JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group PCX – PC Paintbrush PNG – Portable Network Graphics PNM – Portable Anymap from the PPM Toolkit RAS – Sun Raster SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics TGA – Truevision Targa TIFF – Tagged Image File Format WBMP – Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format WebP XBM – X BitMap XPM – X PixMap
Eye of GNOME also supports viewing Exif/XMP metadata associated with an image.
Limitations Eye of GNOME does not support DirectDraw Surface (.dds) or JPEG 2000
See also
Comparison of image viewers gThumb – another image viewer for GNOME with organizing and image editing functions
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