This week, I’m examining photo viewer software on the RPI4. There’s lots of open source photo viewers, so I focus on gThumb, feh, GPicView, and QuickViewer.
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Category: Graphics
fSpy – still image camera matching software
fSpy is a free and open source app for still image camera matching. fSpy is written in Typescript using Electron, React and Redux.
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Manage your Photos: JPEG Photo Compression
JPEG is an image file format that’s been around since the early 1990s, and it uses lossy compression. We compare and contrast Guetzli, MozJPEG, and Lepton. They are all open source tools that run from the command-line.
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IFStile – Iterated Function Systems – visualize substitution tilings
IFStile is software that generates fractals using the Iterated Function System. It’s freeware (not open source) software.
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Latte – Excellent KDE Dock based on Plasma Frameworks
Latte is a dock based on Plasma frameworks that aims to offer an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and KDE Plasma widgets. It animates its contents by using parabolic zoom effect and tries to be as unobtrusive is possible.
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Best Linux Desktop Environments: Strong and Stable
A desktop environment is a collection of disparate components that integrate together. They bundle these components to provide a common graphical user interface with elements such as icons, toolbars, wallpapers, and desktop widgets. This article takes an in-depth look at 9 popular Linux desktop environments.
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imgp – multi-core batch image file resize and rotate
imgp is a Python-based command-line tool that lets you resize and rotate JPEG and PNG files. The software can resize (or thumbnail) thousands of images with a single command. The software is a standalone utility, it’s not tied to a file manager or other software.
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peek – animated GIF screen recorder
Peek is designed to make short screencasts. It’s not a general purpose screencast application like OBS Studio.
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flameshot – simple to use screenshot program
Being able to take a screenshot comes in handy so many times. Linux is blessed with a good range of competent screenshot software. One which has recently caught our attention is Flameshot, an easy to use, open source, Qt-based screenshot utility which is adept at capturing custom areas of a desktop.
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Sailcut CAD – sail design and plotting software
Sailcut CAD is an open source sail design and plotting software. This application allows you to design and visualise your own sail.
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