Geeqie

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Geeqie
Developer(s) The Geeqie community
Stable release
2.6.1 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 2 June 2025;2 months ago (2 June 2025)
Repository geeqie.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=geeqie.git
Written in C
Operating system Unix-like
Type Image viewers
License GPL-2.0-or-later
Website www.geeqie.org

Geeqie is a free software image viewer and image organiser program for Unix-like operating systems, which includes Linux-based systems and Apple's OS X. It was first released in March 2010, having been created as a fork of GQview, which appeared to have ceased development. It uses the GTK toolkit. In September 2015, development was moved from SourceForge to GitHub. [2]

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Features

3FR ANI ARW AVIF BMP CR2 CR3 CRW CUR DDS DjVu DNG ERF FITS GIF HEIC HEIF ICO JP2/JPC/JPX/J2K/JPF JPE/JPEG/JPG JPS JPEGXL KDC MEF MOS MPO MRW NEF NPY ORF (including OM-1) PBM/PGM/PNM/PPM PEF PNG PSD QIF/QTIF (QuickTime Image Format) SCR (ZX Spectrum) RAF RAW RW2 SR2 SRF SVG/SVGZ TGA/TARGA TIF/TIFF WEBP XBM XPM

Reception

Geeqie has been generally well received in the technical press. A 2012 review in Free Software Magazine said it is "highly recommended, if not best in class". [3] [4] A 2011 Linux Insider review awarded it 5 out of 5 stars. [5] A 2010 Linux Magazine review called Geeqie an "indispensable tool", "lightning fast". [6] A 2012 Libre Graphics World review noted that Geeqie seems to be "the only up-to-date JPS and MPO viewer on Linux right now". [7] A negative review in 2010 from Tom's Hardware said it "doesn't offer much more than system default apps". [8]

GQview

GQview is the predecessor to Geeqie. It had been developed from 1998 to 2006 by John Ellis, the last release being in December 2006. [9] Efforts to contact Ellis since then proved unsuccessful, so a group of interested developers forked the GQview code, adopted the name Geeqie, and set about enhancing it. [10] In some Linux distributions (such as Debian [11] and its derivatives), a gqview package was provided as a shortcut to Geeqie for easier upgrade.

See also

References

  1. "Release 2.6.1". 2 June 2025. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
  2. claiming to be the best image viewer / photo collection browser on GitHub
  3. Dmitri Popov (2024-12-10). "Geeqie: An Unsung Hero of Linux Photography Tools". Linux Today . Retrieved 2024-12-29.
  4. Bob Mesibov (2012-07-31). "Compare two images easily with Geeqie". Free Software Magazine . Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  5. Jack M. Germain (2011-06-07). "Geeqie Image Viewer Geeks Out on Features". Linux Insider. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  6. Dmitri Popov (2010-07-15). "A Perfect Image Juggler: Geeqie". Linux Magazine . Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  7. Alexandre Prokoudine (2012-08-14). "Geeqie image viewer gets stereoscopic images support". Libre Graphics World. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  8. Adam Overa (2010-12-02). "Image Viewers". Tom's Hardware . Retrieved 2012-12-09.
  9. "GQview". SourceForge . Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  10. "Geeqie Image Viewer". SourceForge . Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  11. "Debian - details of package gqview in wheezy". Debian . Retrieved 2012-12-11.