Tacent View
Designed to be a comprehensive image viewer, Tacent View supports TGA, PNG, APNG, EXR, DDS, GIF, HDR, JPG, TIFF, ICO, WebP, and BMP files. Uses Dear ImGui, OpenGL, and Tacent. Useful for game devs as it displays information like the presence of an alpha channel and querying...
Tacent View News & Activities
Recent activities
- K0RR added Tacent View as alternative to Swayimg
- LuCiel liked Tacent View
benni347 added Tacent View as alternative to Qiv
Tacent View information
Developed by
Tristan GrimmerLicensing
Open Source and Free product.Written in
Alternatives
38 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Categories
Photos & Graphics, Development, Gaming SoftwareGitHub repository
- 529 Stars
- 43 Forks
- 37 Open Issues
- Updated
What is Tacent View?
Designed to be a comprehensive image viewer, Tacent View supports TGA, PNG, APNG, EXR, DDS, GIF, HDR, JPG, TIFF, ICO, WebP, and BMP files. Uses Dear ImGui, OpenGL, and Tacent. Useful for game devs as it displays information like the presence of an alpha channel and querying specific pixels for their colour.
It includes essential editing functions, batch resizing, rotations, flips, and more. It gives you the ability to view alpha channels correctly and allows for the inspection and editing of individual pixels. High Definition Image loading is supported for EXR and HDR files. It provides you with metadata for images (if available), image detail overlays, image details channel filters, and a color picker/checker that gives you all the values.
Comments and Reviews
3 months ago i decided to give linux a try for the first time. One of the first things i did after finishing the installation, was to test the image viewer bunbled with my distribution.
Being an inveterated IrfanView user for more than 15 years, i must say i found the experience pretty dissapointing. I know that in my situation, you can't expect a linux image viewer to work the same way as Irfan view does. Also, don't wan't to speak ill of any specific application.
I tried Gwenview, XNView, nomacs, EyeofGnome, Ristretto, Phototonic, Viewnor and one or two more i can't recall their names right now. Most of the aforementioned apps didn't felt right to me. Some of them even lacked the option to do basic editing (resizing/cropping). In one of them, i remember i was unable to paste directly from the clipboard, or i needed to choose to open an existing file before being able to paste the clipboard contents.
Last week i found Tacent View and, with no expectations, i gave it a try. From all the alternatives i have tried, it offers the most pleasing experience by far. It has a decent set of features, i can do basic edition, you can edit keyboard shorcuts for most of the operations, the display/fitting options work well. It is not perfect, but Tacent View is the first option i would recommend to any of my friends or relatives as an image viewer for Linux.