I was looking for a photo and image organizer make it independent of the desktop environment, and I found the Phototonics. As I use the MATE Desktop Environment on Debian Jessie, since I am a declared fan of GNOME2, I did not want to install the classic gThumb because the end user interface is that of GNOME3, and I really don't like that environment that much.
Well then, I installed the Phototonics in its version 1.4.0 and I was pleasantly surprised by the benefits that it claims to have - and has - this image viewer and organizer for Linux, which is written in C ++ and Qt 5.3.2. Hence its low consumption of resources, speed and ease of use.
Phototonic Features
The characteristics of this photo organizer, according to its creators are:
- Very light and with a flat and clear interface
- It does not depend on any desktop environment
- It has support for various preview schemes - thumbnails
- Using directory tree, load previews and browse images recursively
- Loading of previews is dynamic and enables fast browsing of large folders or with many images
- Allows you to filter by the name of the previews
- Slide view - slide show
- Images can be rotated, horizontally or vertically inverted, cropped, scaled, and mirrored by your option transform accessed in the main image view by clicking the right mouse button.
- Allows Zoom automatic or manual
- Supports BMP, GIF, ICO, JPEG, MNG, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, TGA, XBM, XPM and SVG, SVGZ, TIFF image formats with plugins.
- Keyboard shortcuts and mouse behavior can be customized
- Supports direct loading of images and directories from the command line
- Allows you to open images with an external viewer
How to install Phototonic
For install Phototonic on any Linux distributionJust download the latest version of the tool from here. Then we will open a terminal and execute the following commands:
$ tar -zxvf phototonic.tar.gz $ cd phototonic $ qmake PREFIX = "/ usr" $ make $ sudo make install
Install Phototonic on Ubuntu and Derivatives
Open a terminal and run the following commands:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa: dhor / myway $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install phototonic
Install Phototonic on Arch Linux and Derivatives
Arch LInux and derivative users can use the AUR repositories to install Phototonic, to do this open a terminal and run:
yaourt -S phototonic
Reader Friend: if you need a light, very fast and simple image viewer and organizer, don't hesitate to install this wonderful program.
I prefer the Eye of Mate, it has rotation functions, etc.
I also have the Eye of MATE installed as a first option and it is the one I use when I browse the folders with Box. But it is undeniable that for an overview, Phototonic is better. My wife loves it. 😉
Well, it looks very good 😀
Phototonic is not just a visualizer, as Eye, Feh, Mirage, Geqie, Qiv or Photoqt or many others can be. It has that and a browser / file manager. And that is what differentiates it from those others so it is not comparable with those.
That's why it's better. At least for me. And it is the same or faster and lighter than those others that only have the viewer but do not have an environment to directly manage the images.
I always compare the image viewers with Acdsee (for windows) and I have not seen any better or faster in linux. In fact, in terms of memory consumption, I have verified that acdsee32 v.2.41 loaded with wine consumes much less than the lightest Linux one. Of course, it is slower when loading the environment.
But how I use linux I have decided on qimgv.