[ale] Image programs for Linux?

[Jay Loden]

I'm a hardcore Linux user, won't be going back to using Windows ever, if I can 
help it, but there is ONE thing that I just haven't found for Linux that I 
had on Windows, and that's Irfanview. 

Irfanview, for those who don't know it, is a small, fast image editor and 
viewer for Windows.  It's tiny, and fast, yet it lets you do a whole host of 
image editing, like resizing, renaming, slideshow creation, more than I can 
even list.  Does anyone out there know of anything similar for Linux? 

Kuickshow at least is a fast image viewer, and lets you do an extremely 
limited number of things (convert an image to a new format, for example) but 
I need something that at least lets me do simple resize, rotate, crop, and 
some ehancements and preferably some filters.  (irfanview has a small set of 
nice filters like greyscale and whatnot, some image sharpeners, and so 
forth). 

Before someone says it, I know the GIMP can do a lot of these things, BUT, the 
GIMP is a lot heavier than what I want, and not the most convenient tool for 
the job.  It's like opening Photoshop just to resize your digital photos - 
overkill. 

-Jay