apps choice for Ubuntu and installation choices [Was: cross-platform virus]

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 14:37 +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> On Thursday 13 April 2006 08:29, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 15:14 -0700, Brian Burger wrote:
> > > The GIMP isn't perfect, and most users probably don't use more than a
> > > fraction of it's abilities, but in the absence of any other image
> > > editor, the GIMP needs to be included.
> >
> > gthumb is great for simple image editing.  I had some large pics to
> > scale down the other day and fired up the Gimp and in the time it took
> > for the GIMP to load (about 1 minute) I had discovered Gthumb and was
> > finished scaling down my pic.
> >
> > Lee
> Not only that, ti contains more than enough capability for most people.

The other great thing I discovered about gthumb is that it if you're
browsing directories with it, it will only generate thumbnails of the
visible files, so that if you open a directory with 100 pictures in it,
you don't have to sit there for 30 seconds before it displays
anything.  

I with Nautilus and the Gnome file selectors did this.

It is a little unfortunate that it seems to generate its own thumbnails,
rather than integrating with the ones Nautilus generates, and that it
does not generate thumbs for the non-visible files in the current
directory in a low-priority background thread.

Lee