Add Crop Image feature in Eye of MATE

[ghost]

Eye of MATE doesn't have basic crop feature in it. Implementation of cropping image would be great.

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[Pablohn26]

+1

[mort3za]

+1

[netpipe]

you can pay about $100 on freelancer to get this done... 2014 looks like a long time ago

[raveit65]

Does eog support this?

[vkareh]

@raveit65 - eog does not support cropping.

Since eom is just an image viewer, adding image editing capabilities is outside of the scope of what we should be worrying about for eom. There are plenty of image editing software that work well within MATE.

That said, if anyone comes up with this feature and sends a PR, I'd be happy to review and test. We have a plugin system for eom so that the cropping feature could be added there.

[lukefromdc]

I think one of the reasons requests for such plugins come up is that increasingly distros are not installing GIMP by default (like they used to) to save space on install disks that have ballooned out anyway to as much as 1.5GB. Very large installers are difficult to download for those of us who do not have landline internet access.

[benpicco]

Also Gimp is a huge and complex tool. For many users who just want to crop an image, it's total overkill.

[HectorB-2020]

Does eog support this?

@raveit65, should we start with convincing EOG developers prior to asking to implement this EOM?
May I also ask if EOM tightly depends or inherits EOG code? Is this the reason?

[benpicco]

I guess if eog supported it, it would be easy to port over (well probably not anymore since the two tools likely diverged a lot by now).

This way the feature has to be implemented from scratch - totally doable, but a greater effort. Patches welcome, I suppose 🙂

[lukefromdc]

In general, it tends to be useful with any new feature or bugfix to first see if GNOME has done anything similar. This both provides code we can re-use in some cases, and reduces divergence between GNOME and MATE at the backend/coding level. That helps future maintainablity