Gwenview is an image viewer

Image viewer

An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that can display stored graphical image; it can often handle various graphics file formats...

 for the KDE Software Compilation

KDE Software Compilation

The KDE Software Compilation is a desktop environment and an associated range of KDE Applications produced by KDE. Prior to version 4.4, released in February 2010, the Software Compilation was known as KDE, which used to stand for K Desktop Environment until November 2009...

 desktop environment

Desktop environment

In graphical computing, a desktop environment commonly refers to a style of graphical user interface derived from the desktop metaphor that is seen on most modern personal computers. These GUIs help the user in easily accessing, configuring, and modifying many important and frequently accessed...

. The current maintainer is Aurélien Gâteau. The word "Gwen" means "white" in the Breton language

Breton language

Breton is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany , France. Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages. Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish, it is classified as...

 and is commonly used as a first name.
While it was available in K Desktop Environment 3, the KDE SC 4 version has a simplified user interface, making it more suitable for quickly browsing through collection of images. Gwenview is also used to display images. It provides a full-screen interface that can be used to display images as a slide-show.

Major features:

• Directory browser
• Image viewer
• Metadata
  Metadata
  The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...
  
   comment editor
• Thumbnail
  Thumbnail
  Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words...
  
   image view of current directory
• Use of KIPI (KDE Image Plugins Interface) plugins for manipulating images

Versions

Version 1.4.0, released in September 2006, adds several new major features, including:

• SVG and video
  Video
  Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
  
   support
• Filtering based on file type, file name pattern, and date.

Latest version for K Desktop Environment 3 is 1.4.2, released in September 2007.