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I'm looking for an app to view photos in folders, which can display properties (like time taken) next to photo. I want to view photos in folders as they are, without importing them to some library like in Shotwell or Digikam.

What would you recommend?

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The default photo viewer (eog) will show metadata. If you open your photo, right click and select Properties. It will open a window that lists the metadata. You can then switch between photos and keep the metadata open beside it.

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  • That's cool feature! I didn't know about it. – amorfis Apr 04 '11 at 07:44
  • Great. What I'd love is a plugin to open those co-ordinates in another utility (Google Maps/Earth or OSM). Just copying the Lat/Long together to the clipboard would be a great compromise, it may be possible to script that. – John T Nov 26 '12 at 01:39
  • This (eog) is also the default image viewer in Lubuntu. It can display some, but not all, metadata in a side panel, not needing a second window. Choose "View → Side Pane" or, in fullscreen mode, press Ctrl + F9 to see it. – tanius Dec 31 '17 at 14:29
  • This is a nice feature. One thing that doesn't work well, though, is that "Image Properties > Details > Image Taking Conditions" closes down to Details overview, when moving on to the next photo. The properties dialog stays open but one has to click on the desired Details again. – somethis Apr 30 '18 at 20:14
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gthumb Install gthumb

It is a powerful image viewer with many awesome features. I'm not sure if it can show the data next to the images, but you don't need to add a library.

If you enable the side pane in eog (View menu - you can get this info at the side as well.

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To enable this btw you need to have the exif display plugin enabled in preferences. If you do not have this plugin, install eog-plugins Install eog-plugins.

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The Nautilus properties option is the quickest way and gives most important data, but it doesn't show things like GPS coordinates if your images have geotagging.

For geolocation info you could try the lightweight Gwenview photo app found in the Ubuntu Software Center.

I also like the pre-installed Shotwell which also shows GPS data.

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If you use the Nemo file browser, you can install this collection of Nemo custom actions and related scripts for displaying Exif metadata of media files in Nemo and for plotting GPS position thereof using various online mapping services:
Github-page s-n-ushakov/exif-gps-mapping-nemo
It allows displaying Exif metadata of media files in popup windows in Nemo, as well as displaying shooting locations in DuckDuckGo, Bing Maps, Google Maps (in a browser) ...

Installation

  • download a release archive and unpack to an arbitrary temporary folder
  • open the folder that was created upon unpacking the release archive
  • run the installation script as ./install-for-current-user.bash

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While Digikam needs a database, it comes bundled with showPhoto (I have v 4.0.0beta3 right now, don't know if showPhoto was available in earlier Versions). showPhoto is a standalone image viewer, without database. It displays pretty much the same metadata as Digikam does. This is a good option for someone who needs both: indepth asset management and a quick viewer with editing features...

Personally I can recommend Gwenview, too. Metadata display can be fully customized and it displays every kind of data.

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