Which image viewer to install by default?

[Patrick]

Currently ristretto is installed by default.

Criteria:

• small (few dependencies)
• usable
• GUI
• confinement?
• dbus free?

@madaidan

Some apps (such as ristretto) are dying due to a lack of D-Bus and many more (such as hexchat) are giving off errors. I think we need to figure out how to start a D-Bus session bus for the sandbox users. Maybe via some systemd stuff. I couldn’t figure out how.

Selecting Secure Packages from packages.debian.org

What about dbus? Is dbus a security risk? Realistic to pick applications that don’t require dbus?

Related:
Selecting Secure Packages from packages.debian.org

[HulaHoop]

Ristretto is simple enough, Feh being even more barebones, but I don’t think it will cut it for most people. All viewers use the same backend libs to render so are similar for security.

[Patrick]

@nurmagoz

• Tumbler thumbnail missing which is need to fix a warning pop-up whenever you open an image

Confirmed.

[Patrick]

Can be fixed by:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install tumbler

That didn’t actually made thumbnails work for me, though. Perhaps reboot required.

Does that work for you (after reboot)?

Any reasons against installation of Debian -- Details of package tumbler in buster by default?

[nurmagoz]

@Patrick

That didn’t actually made thumbnails work for me, though. Perhaps reboot required.

Does that work for you (after reboot)?

im not sure why it didnt work with you immediately, i tested that in Qubes and vbox worked fine and pop-up off after installation of the package without reboot.

@Patrick

Any reasons against installation of Debian -- Details of package tumbler in buster by default?

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/tumbler

I dunno if something serious up there, Doesnt show that.

[Patrick]

Fixed in anon-meta-packages and kicksecure-meta-packages.