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zapyourit

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Registered: 2008-05-12

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Eye of Gnome and Tomboy Alternatives

Hello everyone,

I'm somewhat new to Arch (I do have fluxbox configured to my liking though so I'm proud of that), but I'm basically at a loss coming from the GNOME DE for a simple image viewer like Eye of Gnome. I loved EoG for its simplicity and ability to view many file types.
However, when I go to install it, pacman tells me that I need to install the entire Gnome desktop, which I don't want to do at this time. I also want to find an alternative to Tomboy because I'm having the same problems (needing to install the whole god dang Gnome de).

Any ideas on where to turn at this point would be fantastic.

Thanks a lot,
Matt

Allan

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Re: Eye of Gnome and Tomboy Alternatives

For an EoG replacement, try gpicview.  It only requires gtk2. 

I use notecase for taking notes. It does the job... not a complete tomboy replacement though but it does require only gnome-vfs which is far lighter than all of gnome!

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skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

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Re: Eye of Gnome and Tomboy Alternatives

Image viewer: Mirage, feh, Ristretto
Note-taking/wiki: I don't know much about this class of software, so I'll refer you to Wikipedia. Zim is popular, though (and it's in the Arch repositories). Personally, I use Emacs org-mode for this task.

Oh, and welcome to Arch!

Last edited by skymt (2008-05-12 07:29:29)

zapyourit

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Re: Eye of Gnome and Tomboy Alternatives

thank you both. I just tried out all the image viewers and im sticking with Mirage as it seems to have the most robust set of utilities (like screenshots and saving files) that the others don't (seemingly...very cursory glances).
I will let you know about the desktop wiki though. Notecase and Zim seem pretty nice, but I need to play around with them more. And thanks for the wiki link skymt.

Appreciative for the very prompt response,
Matt

stefan1975

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Re: Eye of Gnome and Tomboy Alternatives

i also prefer ristretto. Gwenview is much better still but nowhere near as lightweight, it works great with KDE though.

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zapyourit

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Re: Eye of Gnome and Tomboy Alternatives

my only issue with ristretto is that it seems rather minimal in comparison to mirage, as well as being larger on disk space. any particular reason you prefer it?

thanks for your input,
matt

iphitus

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Re: Eye of Gnome and Tomboy Alternatives

mirage and feh for images

_Marco_

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Registered: 2008-04-21

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Re: Eye of Gnome and Tomboy Alternatives

feh works like a charm (and you can use it to set a wallpaper in fluxbox,or any other Window Manager, too)
(see the http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Feh page for reference)

kjon

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Re: Eye of Gnome and Tomboy Alternatives

Err... what about gqview? or gthumb. Both of'em are light, and quite fast ^_^

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JGC

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Re: Eye of Gnome and Tomboy Alternatives

The whole gnome desktop? You mean the gnome-desktop package? Eog pulls in most of the gnome platform, gnome-icon-theme, gnome-desktop and some libs to read specific image formats. The whole gnome desktop is what you would get when installing both gnome and gnome-extra groups.

celettu

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Re: Eye of Gnome and Tomboy Alternatives

I replaced tomboy with xpad :-)

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MONODA

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Re: Eye of Gnome and Tomboy Alternatives

xpad for note taking mirage for images

zapyourit

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Re: Eye of Gnome and Tomboy Alternatives

@JCG, thanks for the clarification.

celettu and MONODA, thanks for the alternatives. I've come to adore mirage, and I'm installing xpad as we speak.
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scrawler

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Re: Eye of Gnome and Tomboy Alternatives

how about freemind as a tomboy replacement?

skottish

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Re: Eye of Gnome and Tomboy Alternatives

Excuse the bump...

Does any lightweight GTK2 viewer display XCF files?

zapyourit

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Re: Eye of Gnome and Tomboy Alternatives

freemind is a really interesting program...

it might do what i want it to do
but it might be almost more than i need.