GThumb

From Exiflow

gThumb was the first image viewer supported by exiflow.

Using exigate as a bidirectional gateway, you are able to extract existing keywords from your photos into gThumb's .comment directories so that they show up nicely in gThumb's user interface, and on the other side transfer tags that you created in gThumb back into the images. This means it is possible to tag your photos with whatever software you like and later use gThumb to comfortably browse your collection, or vice versa.

gThumb is a nice image viewer. However, using gThumb as a photo organizer has some backdraws:

• It saves metadata in comment files that can be parsed quickly, but this works directory-wise. It doesn't keep track of your whole collection, so searching for something in your collection is not as easy as it should be.
• It has some kind of basic RAW support, but that's limited to docoding raw images for viewing. It doesn't feature combined thumbnails for raw and jpeg versions that belong together, let alone exiflow revisions. So raw shooters will see each photo at least twice in the thumbnail view. This takes a lot of fun out of the navigation and can lead to errors when sorting and deleting photos, i.e. it is easy to accidently delete a raw and a jpeg that don't belong together.

These are the main reason why we now try to settle with F-Spot, but that doesn't mean that gThumb support will cease. Remember, our highest principle is to not bind users to any special piece of software, so you can keep using gThumb or anything else. It should even be possible to use gThumb and F-Spot together (or, at least, in an alternating manner).