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Loupe, also known as Image Viewer, is an image viewer created for the GNOME desktop environment. It first appeared on December 26, 2020.[1] With the GNOME 45 update, Loupe became GNOME's default image viewer, replacing Eye of GNOME.[2][3]
Repository | gitlab |
---|---|
Written in | Rust |
Operating system | Linux |
Included with | GNOME |
Predecessor | Eye of GNOME |
License | GNU General Public License version 3 |
Website | apps |
Like its predecessor, Loupe offers various options for viewing images. These include standard options such as zooming, rotation, and transparency. Other features include touchscreen support, metadata info, and sandboxed decoding.
Currently, Loupe supports all the formats that glycin
does.[4] These are:
Loupe is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. Written in the Rust programming language, it relies on glycin
,[4] an image decoding crate.
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