[ale] image viewing software on Macs

[James Sumners]

Xee[1]. Xee is awesome (and so is the guy's other software).

As for The GIMP, I wouldn't recommend it. No one maintains a proper
native port of it and the X version is annoying. Primarily, you either
have focus follows mouse (completely contrary to OS X in general) or
click to focus. If you use click to focus, then you have to click
twice on the toolbars, once to activate and a second time to actually
select something, and twice on the image (same thing).

I haven't found a good free alternative. In terms of paid, I gave
Acorn (by Flying Meat Software) a try but it works nothing like
Photoshop, e.g. resize window to resize image(wtf?) [their Voodoo Pad
is great, though]. I have settled on using Pixelmator[2] for my basic
image editing needs. It is a bit pricy for what it does, but it was
worth the 2.0 sale they had in the Mac App Store.

[1] -- http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/xee.html
[2] -- http://www.pixelmator.com/

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
> One more Mac/BSD question:
>
> My wife has "had it" with iphoto!  The thing has crashed twice in the past
> 6 months, each time destroying access to many of her photos.
>
> The GIMP is available for Macs and I will get that loaded on her laptop as
> the latest Photoshop is priced out of our range now.
>
> But she also wants a simpler graphics viewing application that works like
> Gwenview on KDE: click on one image in a directory and easily cycle to the
> next one in line.  Is there a image viewing app. for Macs that does that?
>
> I don't know enough about Macs to know where to start looking.
>
> TIA
>
> Sean
>
>
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