What should I replace Image Viewer from GNOME/Nautilius with for better quality?

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I do open most images with RawTherapee/DarkTable, but is there a software that could replace the default image viewer?

Or is there away to make them render those jpeg better?

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What’s wrong with the way the jpegs are rendered now?

Maybe something like Geeqie?

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It looks pretty crispy for large files.

Here is side by side comparison with dt: http://imgur.com/a/91u3x

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There’s at least one person (me) that doesn’t know what you mean by crispy in this context.

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Bear
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I think it gets clearer at higher zoom. It’s not the same image though.

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I tested on my PC: Darktable preview (left) vs Gnome imgage viewer (right), showing an exported JPEG with 100% quality setting. I do not see much difference.

Plant
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Edit:
@haqthinh: Maybe you should check the options for smoothing images when zoomed.

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@haqthinh Like what @Thomas_Do said, there are image viewers that have rendering settings. I would get one that has those options for more control. E.g., on Windows, my general purpose viewer is Irfanview. It has the following options:

image

Without investigation, I wouldn’t know what Resample and sharpen mean exactly or whether each is adaptive to the image viewing conditions, but at least the options are there.

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I use Geeqie, it is fast and color managed,

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