Loupe (software)
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Default image viewer for GNOME
| Loupe (GNOME Image Viewer) | |
|---|---|
Loupe 45.3 displaying an image | |
| Stable release | 48.1[1]
/ 11 April 2025; 9 months ago (11 April 2025) |
| Repository | gitlab |
| Written in | Rust |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Included with | GNOME |
| Predecessor | Eye of GNOME |
| License | GNU General Public License version 3 |
| Website | apps |
Loupe, also known as Image Viewer, is an image viewer created for the GNOME desktop environment. It first appeared on December 26, 2020.[2] With the GNOME 45 update, Loupe became GNOME's default image viewer, replacing Eye of GNOME.[3][4]
Like its predecessor, Loupe offers various options for viewing images. These include standard options such as zooming, rotation, and transparency. Other features include touchscreen support, metadata info, and sandboxed decoding.
Image format support
[edit]Currently, Loupe supports all the formats that glycin does.[5] These are:
Development
[edit]Loupe is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. Written in the Rust programming language, it relies on glycin,[5] an image decoding crate.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "48.1 * Tags * GNOME / Image Viewer * GitLab". Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ^ "Initial Commit GNOME/loupe@f692ab5 GitHub". GitHub. 26 December 2020. Archived from the original on 27 February 2024. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
- ^ Rudra, Sourav (12 May 2023). "Loupe is the New Image Viewer App for GNOME". It's FOSS News. Archived from the original on 1 February 2024. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
- ^ Hacker, Felix (11 August 2023). "#108 Sandboxed Images". This Week in GNOME. Archived from the original on 4 December 2023. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
- ^ a b "GNOME / Image Viewer GitLab". GNOME GitLab. 26 February 2024. Archived from the original on 27 February 2024. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
