Loupe, also known as Image Viewer, is an image viewer created for the GNOME desktop environment. It first appeared on December 26, 2020. With the release of GNOME 45 in September 2023, Loupe became GNOME's default image viewer, replacing Eye of GNOME.
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
Currently, Loupe supports all the formats that glycin does. These are:
AVIF BMP DDS farbfeld (by suckless) QOI GIF HEIC ICO JPEG JPEG XL OpenEXR PNG PNM SVG TGA TIFF WebP
Development
Loupe is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. Written in the Rust programming language, it relies on glycin, an image decoding crate.
See also
Comparison of image viewers Eye of GNOME GNOME Core Applications
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