[ale] Image programs for Linux?

[Parker McGee]

The programs I hear most referred when someone asks for something like 
this are gqview and gthumb.  I've personally used Gthumb and like it a 
lot for picture managing, but I'm not sure that it has all the editing 
features you're looking for.  At least it's a start.

Jay Loden wrote:
> 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
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