Chapter 3. External tools

You can easily extend Gwenview by defining external tools. These tools are accessible from the contextual popup menu which appears when right-clicking on a thumbnail or in the image view. Look in the External Tools entry.

Gwenview comes with a few predefined external tools, but it's very easy to add more through the Configure External Tools dialog. You can open it from Settings->Configure External Tools....

Here is how it looks:



In this example, I defined an external tool which will call Exiftran to regenerate the EXIF tags for JPEG images. Here is a more detailed description of its definition:

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You can find other external tool examples from Gwenview web site.