Gwenview - KDE Community Wiki

Gwenview is the KDE image viewer. It makes it easy to quickly view an image, browse your picture folders and perform simple image manipulations.

Ways to communicate

Mailing List: [email protected] (info page)

IRC Channel: #kde-devel on freenode

Phabricator project: https://phabricator.kde.org/project/view/263

Top bugs and feature requests

Rotating an image changes the image itself, not the EXIF orientation tag: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324597
For >96 DPI images, KDE Gwenview resets DPI to 96 after rotation operation: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278661
Gwenview saves 16-bit B&W TIFF files as uncompressed 24bit sRGB after rotation: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357522
Gwenview should let you set JPEG quality/compression settings when saving: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277996
Gwenview has poor or nonexistent support for filenames with non-Latin characters in them (i.e. can't open files in Russian, Chinese, Korean, etc): https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371816
Gwenview always prints in portrait mode and ignores attempts to use landscape: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365859
Gwenview should wrap with the arrow keys too, not just the spacebar/backspace key: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387380 (old patch: https://phabricator.kde.org/D9039)
Gwenview should wrap without a modal dialog box: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334847 (old patch: https://phabricator.kde.org/D9039)
Can't drag a selection marquee in Gwenview when starting from the area between thumbnails: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252467
Undo/Redo should be available for deleting images or moving them from/to the trash: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319705 & https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351134
Gwenview's main image view does not automatically refresh when the viewed file is changed in another program: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131068
Gwenview gets fooled by incorrect file extensions: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329140 (Figure out what's wrong with the supposed fix in https://cgit.kde.org/gwenview.git/commit/?id=8bb1d8a60cd98a223e1b062a0be09bae9056a15a)
KDE Gwenview doesn't honor modifier keys during drag and always prompts anyway: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212417
Gwenview doesn't end slideshow when you hit Esc; the selection keeps moving: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376926
When an image that's open in Gwenview is edited with another program, the thumbnail updates instantly, but the image itself doesn't: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131068
Gwenview rasterizes and pixellates .eps graphics files: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220806
Gwenview's Semantic Information section is unnecessarily humongous: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332921
Gwenview's slideshow should use the space bar to pause/resume: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359381 (old patch: https://phabricator.kde.org/D8753)
Gwenview should have a "Set as Wallpaper" action: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170124
Gwenview's slideshow background color needs to be black or user-configurable: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348746
Gwenview should do sharing via the Purpose framework: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395323
Gwenview should show the image path somewhere in the main window: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378061
Gwenview needs more image editing features: brightness/contrast, color balance, etc: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82979
Gwenview needs annotation and markup tools using the KImageAnnotator framework: https://cgit.kde.org/libkimageannotator.git
Gwenview's main window should open optimally-sized for whatever image you open with: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355139
Gwenview should be able to to batch/multiple image resizing rotating, etc.: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178532
Gwenview's Exit Full Screen button should have text: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385314
Gwenview should have a back button: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385622