In the next article we are going to take a look at Vooki Image Viewer. This is a lightweight image viewer with which we can get a quick preview of the images. This program has been developed to be able to have the same viewer available in all the main operating systems: Gnu / Linux, Windows and MacOS.
Today images are part of daily Internet use, being particularly important in social networks. For this reason, having a good image viewer is an essential part of any operating system. There are so many image viewers available for Gnu / Linux that selection can be difficult. Among the different options available, we can find Vooki Image Viewer. This is a simple and fast image viewer that is written in C ++.
General characteristics of Vooki
- This program is a lightweight image viewer, with which we will get a quick preview of the images.
- Vooki Image Viewer was developed to have the same viewer available on all major operating systems as they are: Windows, MacOS and GNU / Linux.
- The main objective of this project is to offer users a free multiplatform viewer, with a simple design and minimal commonly used features. The program is not too loaded with features.
- Among the latests Moravia's compositions different transformations that we can use, we can find the ones to flip (horizontal, vertical) or rotation (clockwise and counterclockwise in steps of 90 °).
- We can also use the zoom to zoom in, zoom out, see the original size or fit the image to the window.
- The program will allow us to work at full screen or window mode.
- We will have the possibility of modify the background color for a custom one.
- Border color customizable image.
- The program remember recent files.
- It also supports the trackpad gestures High Definition from Apple.
- This program supports all common image formats within its main codebase. This means that the software has far fewer external dependencies than other image viewers.
- There is a good support for keyboard shortcuts, which are customizable. These allow us to carry out almost all actions, which means that users can navigate through the image library without having to stop using the keyboard.
These are just some of the features of the program. But they can consult all of them in detail from the page on GitHub of the project.
Install Vooki Image Viewer
The developer of this program provides official binaries for a wide variety of systems. There prebuilt binaries for Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora, as well as for Mac OS and Windows.
Using the .DEB file
To install this program in Ubuntu 20.04, we will only have download the Ubuntu-Eoan-DEB_Package.zip package from the project releases page on GitHub . We can also open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and use wget as follows to download the package:
wget https://github.com/vookimedlo/vooki-image-viewer/releases/download/v2019.11.10/Ubuntu-Eoan-DEB_Package.zip
Once the download is finished, we only have unzip the zip file. Now we can enter the folder that will be created on our computer and we can install the program with the .deb package that we will find inside. For this we will use the following command in a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T):
sudo dpkg -i vookiimageviewer_2019.11.10-1_amd64.deb
After the installation we can find the program launcher:
Using the source code
If you want to compile the source code, as indicated on the GitHub page, we should not clone the repository in GitHub of the project. The developer reports that the repository is used for development only. Instead, we must download the latest fonts published. Then we will have to extract the compressed tarball and use cmake and make to compile the source code.
If we are interested download source code using wget, we will only have to open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and use the following command:
wget https://github.com/vookimedlo/vooki-image-viewer/archive/v2019.11.10.tar.gz
After the download, We start by unzipping the downloaded package and continue executing the following commands:
tar -xf v2019.11.10.tar.gz cd vooki-image-viewer-2019.11.10/build/cmake cmake .
We continue with the instructions:
make -j4 sudo make install
Vooki Image Viewer offers snappy performance. It has a good design philosophy, great keyboard shortcuts, and a viewer that supports many image formats., without a lot of external dependencies.
It has to be said that This image viewer is not a substitute for recommended image viewers such as gThumb or QuickViewer. But if you are looking for an image viewer that is easy to use, this is a good option.