Eye of GNOME

Eye of GNOME is an open source application that allows users to view image files under open source, Linux-based operating systems. It is mostly used under the GNOME desktop environment, where it is called Image Viewer.

Features at a glance

Eye of GNOME can make use of EXIF information stored in digital camera images and display it on an optional sidebar that can be enabled from the View menu. It can read numerous image file formats, including ANI, BMP, GIF, ICO, JPEG, PCX, PNG, PNM, RAS, SVG, TGA, TIFF, WBMP, XBM, and XPM.

Basic image editing functions are displayed on the main toolbar, allowing users to rotate the current image 90 degrees to the left of right in incremental steps, as well as to flip the image horizontally or vertically. The changes can be saved.

Another interesting feature is the ability to import plugins, which add new functionality to the application, using the Preferences dialog. New plugins can be added by installing a binary package entitled Eye of GNOME Plugins.

Getting started with Eye of GNOME

If you use GNOME as your default desktop environment and you double click an image file, it will (most probably) open it with the Eye of GNOME application, which’s name is usually shorten to EOG by the Linux community.

The program provides users with a very basic and uncluttered user interface, comprised of the main toolbar and the statusbar. Optionally, users can choose to view a sidebar, an image gallery that allows them to access more photos from the current folder, as well as fullscreen and slideshow modes.

Availability and supported Linux OSes

The application is distributed as a standalone source package that can be configured, compiled and installed in any desktop environment or operating system. While no binary packages are available for a specific Linux OS, users can install the program from the default software repositories of their Linux distro.

What is new in this release:

• Bug fixes:
• Add OARS and update gitlab URLs (Nick Richards)
• Add icns to mime types (Harry Mallon)
• #674284, EOG memory leak on viewing many jpeg images (Claudio Saavedra)
• #795998, build: it's enable_xmp not enable_exempi (Rasmus Thomsen)
• New and updated translations:
• Pieter Schalk Schoeman [af]

What is new in version 3.28.2:

• New and updated translations:
• Marcos Lans [gl]

What is new in version :

• Bug fixes:
• #787188, Close confirmation dialog looks outdated
• #787750, EOG 3.26 does not store recently used files

What is new in version 3.27.1:

• Port to meson build system (Inigo Martinez)
• Bug fixes:
• #784354, Port to meson build system (Inigo Martinez)
• #790078, build: Install appstream metadata to non-deprecated location (Jeremy Bicha)

What is new in version 3.26.1:

• Fixed smaller translation bugs (Andre Klapper, Piotr Drag)
• New and updated translations:
• Yuras Shumovich [be]
• Efstathios Iosifidis [el]
• Arash Mousavi [fa]
• Sveinn i Felli [is]
• Justin van Steijn [nl]
• Stas Solovey [ru]
• New and updated manual translations:
• Andre Klapper [cs]
• Andre Klapper [de]
• Anders Jonsson [sv]

What is new in version 3.26.0:

• Lyubomir Vasilev [bg]
• Ask Hjorth Larsen [da]
• Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio [eu]
• Gianvito Cavasoli [it]
• sujiniku, Jiro Matsuzawa [ja]
• Nathan Follens [nl]
• New and updated manual translations:
• Jordi Mas, Aleix Badia i Bosch [ca]
• Gabor Kelemen [hu]
• Sebastian Rasmussen [sv]

What is new in version 3.25.1:

• Drop intltool support in favour of plain gettext
• Bug fixes:
• #555831, be able to mount a volume from recent files (Ondrej Holy)
• New and updated translations:
• Felix Riemann [de]
• Daniel Mustieles [es]
• Fabio Tomat [fur]
• Kukuh Syafaat [id]
• Baurzhan Muftakhidinov [kk]
• Stas Solovey [ru]
• Emin Tufan Cetin [tr]

What is new in version 3.24.1:

• Bug fixes:
• #780675, gcc pragma build failure
• New and updated translations:
• Tom Tryfonidis [el]
• Daniel Mustieles [es]
• gogo [hr]
• Kjartan Maraas [nb]
• New and updated manual translations
• Rudolfs Mazurs [lv]

What is new in version 3.24.0:

• New and updated translations:
• gogo [hr]
• Gianvito Cavasoli [it]
• Changwoo Ryu [ko]
• Rudolfs Mazurs [lv]
• Yuri Myasoedov [ru]
• Daniel Korostil [uk]

What is new in version 3.23.1:

• Several GTK deprecation fixes
• Smaller bug and memory leak fixes
• Bug fixes:
• #774001, Take advantage of Unicode (Piotr Drag)
• #776984, eog displays jpeg image color incorrectly on wayland (Felix Riemann)
• New and updated translations:
• Marek Cernocky' [cs]
• Mario Blattermann [de]
• Daniel Mustieles [es]
• Jiri Gronroos [fi]
• Fabio Tomat [fur]
• Mesko Balazs [hu]
• Baurzhan Muftakhidinov [kk]
• Piotr Drag [pl]
• Rafael Fontenelle [pt_BR]
• Dingzhong Chen [zh_CN]

What is new in version 3.20.5:

• Some smaller code improvements
• Bug fixes:
• #772162, When deleting ALL images, the last one stays in preview (F. Riemann)
• New and updated translations:
• David King [en_GB]
• Daniel Mustieles [es]
• gogo [hr]
• Hannie Dumoleyn [nl]
• Piotr Drag [pl]
• Matej Urbancic [sl]

What is new in version 3.20.4:

• Bug fixes:
• #770143, CVE-2016-6855 out-of-bounds write in eog 3.10.2
• #770197, eog leaks error message if loading an SVG fails
• New and updated translations:
• gogo [hr]
• Muhammet Kara [tr]
• New and updated manual translations
• Sebastian Rasmussen [sv]

What is new in version 3.20.3:

• Bug fixes:
• #767003, Eye Of Gnome should refresh automatically the image when it is edited
• New and updated translations:
• - Frederic Peters [fr]
• - Sveinn i Felli [is]
• - Kjartan Maraas [nb]
• - Cedric Valmary (totenoc.eu) [oc]
• - Daniel Șerbanescu [ro]
• - Theppitak Karoonboonyanan [th]

What is new in version 3.20.2:

• Further UI improvements (Trinh Anh Ngoc)
• Bug fixes:
• #754628, Improve UI (Trinh Anh Ngoc)
• New and updated translations

What is new in version 3.17.2:

• Bug fixes:
• #746132, can't zoom to 100% 200% etc. in eog 3.15.91 (Felix Riemann)
• #751007, Compilation error when EXIF support disabled (Alexandre Rostovtsev)
• #751021, Use symbolic icons for fullscreen toolbar (Alexandre Franke)
• New and updated translations:
• Marek AŒernockA½ [cs]
• Benjamin Steinwender [de]
• Dimitris Spingos (Greek [el]
• Piotr DrA...g [en_CA]
• Daniel Mustieles [es]
• Yosef Or Boczko [he]
• DuAan Kazik [sk]
• Victor Ibragimov [tg]
• Muhammet Kara [tr]

What is new in version 3.17.1:

• Small improvements for the new UI
• Bug fixes and code improvements
• Bug fixes:
• #538279, Always show image area box/outline (Felix Riemann)
• #739654, support multi-page TIFFs, somehow (Felix Riemann)
• #743477, Add a view category to the options popover menu (Felix Riemann)
• #746802, Zoom toggle button should zoom in and out when pressed (Felix Riemann)
• #748598, EOG opens tiff always with a small window (Felix Riemann)
• New and updated translations:
• Cedric Valmary (Tot en A²c) [oc]
• New and updated manual translations:
• Jordi Mas [ca]

What is new in version 3.16.0:

• Bug fixes:
• #746336, remove the overlay timeout in dispose (Felix Riemann)
• New and updated translations:
• Daniel Martinez [an]
• Jordi Mas [ca]
• IA±aki LarraA±aga Murgoitio [eu]
• Andika Triwidada [id]

What is new in version 3.14.3 / 3.16.0 Beta 1:

• More cleanup after the first round of UI modernization
• Make GAction plugin interface actually usable by plugins
• NOTE: Plugins using the old GtkUIManager interface won't work anymore!
• Bug fixes:
• #743887, Image buttons should have tooltips (Felix Riemann)
• New and updated translations:
• Marek AŒernockA½ [cs]
• Efstathios Iosifidis [el]
• Kristjan SCHMIDT [eo]
• Daniel Mustieles [es]
• Yosef Or Boczko [he]
• BalAzs Asr [hu]
• Sveinn A Felli [is]
• A...ka Sikrom [nb]
• Rafael Ferreira [pt_BR]
• Stas Solovey [ru]
• DuAan Kazik [sk]
• Daniel Korostil [uk]

What is new in version 3.15.1:

• Modernize the GUI (Allan Day, Jente Hidskes, Felix Riemann)
• Migrate to GAction (Jente Hidskes, Felix Riemann)
• Bug fixes:
• #740426, Use a header bar (Allan Day, Jente Hidskes, Felix Riemann)
• #741050, Migrate to GAction (Jente Hidskes, Felix Riemann)
• #742369, doesn't use high quality icon in the overview (Andreas Nilsson)
• New and updated translations:
• Daniel Martinez [an]
• Marek AŒernockA½ [cs]
• Dimitris Spingos (O"O·O¼O0Ï"ρO·Ï‚ OGBPÏ€O¯O³O³OÏ‚) [el]
• Daniel Mustieles [es]
• IA±aki LarraA±aga Murgoitio [eu]
• Fran Dieguez [gl]
• Yosef Or Boczko [he]
• BalAzs Asr [hu]
• Sveinn A Felli [is]
• Aurimas AŒernius [lt]
• Hannie Dumoleyn [nl]
• Rafael Ferreira [pt_BR]
• Stas Solovey [ru]
• DuAan Kazik [sk]
• Traº§n Nga"c QuA¢n [vi]
• New and updated manual translations:
• Christian Kirbach [de]

What is new in version 3.14.3:

• Fix preferences dialog when using aggressive linker settings (Felix Riemann)
• Fixed a few memory leaks (Boris Egorov, Felix Riemann)
• Bug fixes:
• #739618, preferences does not load properly (Felix Riemann)
• #740348, Fixing memory leaks detected by cppcheck
• New and updated translations:
• Vietnamese

What is new in version 3.14.2:

• New and updated translations

What is new in version 3.14.1:

• Bug fixes:
• #737213, Cant't build eog-3.14 without XMP support (Felix Riemann)
• #737772, Confirmation dialogs should wrap their labels (Felix Riemann)
• #737960, Requires gtk+-3.14 (Felix Riemann)
• New and updated translations:
• Arash Mousavi [fa]
• Pawan Chitrakar [ne]
• New and updated manual translations:
• Changwoo Ryu, Seong-ho Cho [ko]
• Rafael Ferreira [pt_BR]

What is new in version 3.14.0:

• New and updated translations:
• Jiri GrA¶nroos [fi]

What is new in version 3.14 RC1:

• New and updated translations
• New and updated manual translations

What is new in version 3.14 Beta 1:

• Touchscreen gestures support (Carlos Garnacho)
• Updated UI tests (Vadim Rutkovsky)
• Fix more deprecated GTK+ usage (Felix Riemann)
• Bug fixes:
• #730656, [PATCH] Support touchscreen gestures (Carlos Garnacho)
• New and updated translations:
• MarMav, Tom Tryfonidis [el]
• Jiro Matsuzawa [ja]
• New and updated manual translations
• Daniel ȘerbAƒnescu [ro]

What is new in version 3.13.3:

• Drop dreprecated GtkMisc and GtkAlignment usage (Felix Riemann)
• Improvements to GUI test handling (Vadim Rutkovsky)

What is new in version 3.13.2:

• Convert dialogs made with Glade to GResource and widget templates (Felix Riemann)
• Bug fixes:
• #729494, Disable dark theme plugin does not disable the dark theme (Felix Riemann)
• #729498, Plugin manager not resizing in the preferences window (Felix Riemann)
• New and updated translations:
• Carles Ferrando, Pau Iranzo [ca@valencia]
• New and updated manual translations
• Tom Tryfonidis [el]
• Sami Jaktholm [fi]

What is new in version 3.12.2:

• Bug fixes:
• #729494, Disable dark theme plugin does not disable the dark theme (F. Riemann)
• #729498, Plugin manager not resizing in the preferences window (Felix Riemann)
• New and updated translations:
• Carles Ferrando, Pau Iranzo [ca@valencia]
• New and updated manual translations
• Tom Tryfonidis [el]

What is new in version 3.13.1:

• Added installed GUI tests (Vadim Rutkovsky)
• Support extracting color profiles with GdkPixbuf (Felix Riemann)
• Bug fixes:
• #727467, ignores colour profiles on TIFF (Felix Riemann)
• #727989, Add installed tests (Vadim Rutkovsky)
• #729018, Drop gnome-icon-theme dependency (Matthias Clasen)
• New and updated translations:
• Rune Karlsson [sv]

What is new in version 3.12.1:

• New and updated translations:
• Gabor Kelemen [hu]
• Dirgita [id]
• Ikuya Awashiro [ja]
• Peter VAgner [sk]
• New and updated manual translations:
• Marek AŒernockA½ [cs]
• Daniel Mustieles [es]
• Alexandre Franke [fr]
• BalAzs Asr, Gabor Kelemen [hu]

What is new in version 3.12.0:

• New and updated translations
• New and updated manual translations

What is new in version 3.12 RC1:

• Bug fixes:
• #720340, 'save as' doesn't update window title (Felipe Ortiz)

What is new in version 3.12 Beta 2:

• Improved color management compatibility (pdknsk)
• Improved Exif GPS tag handling (Felix Riemann)
• Bug fixes:
• #554498, No colour conversion when image does not have embedded ICC profile
• #725357, support for color correction of RGBA images (pdknsk)
• #725416, GPS information are shown without decimal values (Felix Riemann)
• New and updated translations:
• Ihar Hrachyshka [be]
• Pau Iranzo [ca]
• Andika Triwidada [id]
• Sandeep Shedmake [mr]

What is new in version 3.12 Beta 1:

• Bug fixes:
• #722235, Use unity-control-center if running under Unity (Robert Ancell)
• #723544, Fix the previous and the next icons in RTL (Yosef Or Boczko)
• #723546, Fix the undo icon in RTL (Yosef Or Boczko)
• New and updated translations:
• Khaled Hosny [ar]
• Nilamdyuti Goswami [as]
• Marek AŒernockA½ [cs]
• Vangelis Skarmoutsos [el]
• Mattias PAµldaru [et]
• Jiri GrA¶nroos [fi]
• GunChleoc [gd]
• Yosef Or Boczko [he]
• Shankar Prasad [kn]
• Aurimas AŒernius [lt]
• FAbio Nogueira [pt_BR]
• Theppitak Karoonboonyanan [th]
• Daniel Korostil [uk]
• Chao-Hsiung Liao [zh_HK, zh_TW]

What is new in version 3.11.4:

• Use Python 3.x for Python plugins (Felix Riemann)
• AppData improvements (William Jon McCann, Piotr DrA...g)
• Misc improvements and optimizations (Felix Riemann, Lars Uebernickel)
• Bug fixes:
• #721488, License text contains obsolete FSF postal address (Felix Riemann)
• #721755, Don't call gdk_threads_init() (Lars Uebernickel)
• New and updated translations:
• Dimitris Spingos [el]
• Fran Dieguez [gl]
• Yosef Or Boczko [he]
• Kjartan Maraas [nb]
• Matej UrbanAiA [sl]
• Victor Ibragimov [tg]
• Tong Hui [zh_CN]

What is new in version 3.11.3:

• Image background layer uses GdkRGBA to avoid color conversion from GdkColor and principally allow transparent backgrounds (Felix Riemann)
• Make several actions available over D-Bus (Ryan Lortie, Felix Riemann)
• Fixed more deprecated GtkStyle and GtkStock usage (Felix Riemann)
• Bug fixes:
• #712350, eog doesn't export actions on D-Bus (Ryan Lortie, Felix Riemann)
• #720144, app menu: standardize Help/About/Quit (Michael Catanzaro)
• New and updated translations:
• Spanish
• Finnish
• Norwegian
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Tajik
• New and updated manual translations
• Greek

What is new in version 3.11.2:

• Various improvements and bugfixes (Felix Riemann, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse)
• Bug fixes:
• #509406, split/rename general metadata support from libexif support
• #700717, Sidepane is not resizable (can be stretched but cant be made smaller)
• #712354, error: redefinition of typedef 'EogJob' (Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse)
• New and updated translations:
• Dimitris Spingos [el]
• Daniel Mustieles [es]
• Fran Dieguez [gl]
• Wouter Bolsterlee [nl]
• Matej UrbanAiA [sl]
• Victor Ibragimov [tg]

What is new in version 3.10.2:

• Fixed detail widget expansion in properties dialog.
• New and updated translations:
• Efstathios Iosifidis [el]

What is new in version 3.11.1:

• Use GtkOverlay and GtkRevealer for fullscreen toolbar (Felix Riemann)
• Add AppData support (Richard Hughes)
• Build system improvements (Felix Riemann)
• Replace several deprecated APIs (Felix Riemann)
• Various improvements and bugfixes (John Hiesey, Felix Riemann)
• Bug fixes:
• #582931, nautilus steals eog focus when opening second image (John Hiesey)
• #708757, Please include an AppData file (Richard Hughes)

What is new in version 3.10.1:

• New and updated translations:
• Carles Ferrando, Josep SA nchez [ca@valencia]
• Arash Mousavi [fa]
• RA"dolfs Mazurs [lv]
• GA¶khan GurbetoAŸlu [tr]
• tuhaihe [zh_CN]
• Cheng-Chia Tseng [zh_HK, zh_TW]
• New and updated manual translations
• RA"dolfs Mazurs [lv]

What is new in version 3.10 Beta 2:

• Build system fixes (SeAn de BAºrca)
• Miscellaneous fixes and cleanups (Jiro Matsuzawa, Felix Riemann)
• Bug fixes:
• #706837, build fails due to missing IT_PROG_INTLTOOL macro (SeAn de BAºrca)
• #707099, build fails due to extraneous command in autogen (SeAn de BAºrca)
• #707212, Mnemonics conflict in delete-confirmation dialog. (Jiro Matsuzawa)
• New and updated translations:
• Ryan Lortie, Tiffany Antopolski [eo]
• Daniel Mustieles [es]
• Alexandre Franke [fr]
• SeAn de BAºrca [ga]
• Fran Dieguez [gl]
• Andika Triwidada [id]
• Aurimas AŒernius [lt]
• Piotr DrA...g [pl]
• Matej UrbanAiA [sl]
• Victor Ibragimov [tg]
• New and updated manual translations
• Gabor Kelemen [hu]

What is new in version 3.9.5:

• Bug fixes:
• #683908, Screenshots in the manual should use the dark theme (Tiffany Antopolski)
• #702521, Delete Image menu does not have a mnemonic (Jiro Matsuzawa)
• #702523, Eog crashes deleting removed photo (Felix Riemann)
• #704074, eog-jobs.h includes non-installed header eog-uri-converter.h (Dominique Leuenberger)
• #704359, svg images displaced since gtk 3.9.2 (Sebastian Keller)
• New and updated translations:
• Marek AŒernockA½ [cs]
• Benjamin Steinwender [de]
• Daniel Mustieles [es]
• Jiro Matsuzawa [ja]
• Kjartan Maraas [nb]
• Victor Ibragimov [tg]
• New and updated manual translations
• Christian Kirbach [de]
• Daniel Mustieles [es]

What is new in version 3.9.1:

• Integrate more modern job system from Evince with proper cancellation support in preparation for further refactoring (Javier SAnchez)
• Bug fixes:
• #563538, Ability to permanently delete photo via keyboard shortcut (J. SAnchez)
• #630512, Eog initial window size exceeds screen height (Leonardo Donnelli)
• #699043, fix hyphenation in checkbox labels (Felix Riemann)
• New and updated translations:
• Khaled Hosny [ar]
• Marek AŒernockA½ [cs]
• Dimitris Spingos (O"O·O¼O0Ï"ρO·Ï‚ OGBPÏ€O¯O³O³OÏ‚) [el]
• Daniel Mustieles [es]
• Fran Dieguez [gl]
• Yaron Shahrabani [he]
• Jiro Matsuzawa [ja]
• Kjartan Maraas [nb]
• Richard StanislavskA½ [sk]
• Matej UrbanAiA [sl]
• Victor Ibragimov [tg]
• tuhaihe [zh_CN]

What is new in version 3.8.2:

• Bug fixes:
• #630512 Eog initial window size exceeds screen height (Leonardo Donelli)
• New and updated manual translations:
• OKANO Takayoshi [ja]

What is new in version 3.8.0:

• New and updated translations:
• Arash Mousavi [fa]
• chandankumar [hi]
• Gianvito Cavasoli [it]
• Dr.T.Vasudevan [ta]
• Victor Ibragimov [tg]
• New and updated manual translations:
• Alain Lojewski [fr]
• Gabor Kelemen [hu]

What is new in version 3.7.92:

• Bug fixes:
• #695818, Disable color management support on !X (Matthias Clasen)
• New and updated translations:
• Khaled Hosny [ar]
• Nilamdyuti Goswami [as]
• Ihar Hrachyshka [be]
• Gil Forcada [ca]
• Carles Ferrando [ca@valencia]
• Kenneth Nielsen [da]
• Mario BlA¤ttermann [de]
• Jiri GrA¶nroos [fi]
• BalAzs Asr [hu]
• Jiro Matsuzawa [ja]
• Changwoo Ryu [ko]
• Duarte Loreto [pt]
• New and updated manual translations
• Dimitris Spingos

What is new in version 3.7.91:

• New and updated translations:
• Marek AŒernockA½ [cs]
• IA±aki LarraA±aga Murgoitio [eu]
• Alexandre Franke [fr]
• Fabio Tomat [fur]
• RA"dolfs Mazurs [lv]
• Anish A [ml]
• A S Alam [pa]
• Aleksej Kabanov [ru]
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