Eye of GNOME

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 It has been superseded by Loupe in GNOME 45.^[2] There is also another official image viewer for GNOME called gThumb that has more advanced features like image organizing and image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 (Image Viewer)
Eye of GNOME 40 (released in 2021–03)
Developer(s)	The GNOME Project
Stable release	44.3[1]  / 1 July 2023; 2 years ago (1 July 2023)
Repository	gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/eog.git
Written in	C (GTK)
Operating system	Unix-like
Platform	GNOME
Successor	GNOME Loupe
Type	Image viewer
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Website	wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EyeOfGnome

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.^[3]

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^[4]
• 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

• Free and open-source software portal

• Comparison of image viewers
• gThumb – another image viewer for GNOME with organizing and image editing functions