Eye of MATE – simple graphics viewer for the MATE Desktop Environment

Eye of MATE (or eom) is the official image viewer for the MATE Desktop Environment.

It aims to be simplistic, lightweight, and easy to use. The Eye of MATE may also be used to perform basic tasks like image flipping and rotation.

Eye of MATE features a flexible plugin system which can be used to dynamically add new advanced features to eom itself. eom uses the gdk-pixbuf library, it can handle large images, zoom, and scroll with low memory usage.

This is free and open source software.

Website: wiki.mate-desktop.org/mate-desktop/applications/eom
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Lucas Rocha, Felix Riemann, Claudio Saavedra, Tim Gerla, Philip Van Hoof, Paolo Borelli, Jens Finke, Federico Mena Quintero, Arik Devens, Michael Meeks, Martin Baulig, Perberos, Steve Zesch, and Stefano Karapetsas
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

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