Gwenview

Gwenview is an image viewer for Unix-like systems (including Linux) and is released as part of the KDE Applications bundle. The current maintainer is Aurélien Gâteau. The word "Gwen" means "white" in the Breton language and is commonly used as a first name.

Gwenview

Gwenview in KDE Gear 21.12.0
Original author(s)	Aurélien Gâteau
Developer(s)	KDE
Stable release	24.12.2[1]  / 6 February 2025
Repository	invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview
Written in	C++
Platform	KDE Frameworks 5
Type	Image viewer
License	GPL-2.0-only or GPL-3.0-only
Website	apps.kde.org/gwenview/

History

Aurélien Gâteau started Gwenview using GTK but switch to qt early in development.^[2] Gwenview was first available for K Desktop Environment 3. Later it was released as part of the KDE Software Compilation 4 with a simplified user interface, making it more suitable for quickly browsing through collection of images.^[3] It also provided a full-screen interface that can be used to display images as a slide-show. In 2014, Gwenview was ported to KDE Frameworks 5 and released as part of KDE Applications.^[4]

Features

Major features include:^[5]

• Directory browser
• Raster image (including but not limited to BMP, PNG, JPEG, GIF, MNG, TIFF, and PSD), SVG, RAW (limited), and video support
• Easy to use interface^[6]
• Metadata comment editor
• Thumbnail image view of current directory
• Import images from external storage
• Use of KIPI (KDE Image Plugins Interface) plugins for manipulating images
• Filtering based on file type, file name pattern, and date.
• Share images to social networking sites^[7]

See also

• Comparison of image viewers
• digiKam
• gThumb