KSquirrel

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KSquirrel is an image viewer for the KDE desktop environment with a disk navigator, file tree, thumbnails, extended thumbnails, dynamic format support, DCOP interface, KEXIF and KIPI plugins support. The current version is 0.8.0 (Dec 07 2007). KSquirrel is under the GPL-2.0-or-later license, and the KSquirrel-libs under the LPGL-2.0-or-later license and other licenses. It supports more than 57 image formats, including PNG, JPEG, PSD, APNG, [1] GIF, WMF, OpenEXR and many other.

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Current status

KSquirrel is abandoned by its original developer since 2008. The image codecs from KSquirrel have been rebranded in 2020 as a lightweight cross-platform image library called SAIL, under the MIT license. [2]

However, KSquirrel is still maintained by the TDE team.

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References

  1. "Ksquirrel-libs ChangeLog". GitHub .
  2. "SAIL: Squirrel Abstract Image Library". GitHub .