KSquirrel is an

image viewer An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that can display stored graphical images; it can often handle various graphics file formats. Such software usually renders the image according to properties of the display such as color depth, ...

for the

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desktop environment In computing, a desktop environment (DE) is an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating system that share a common graphical user interface (GUI), sometimes described as a graphica ...

with a disk navigator, file tree, thumbnails, extended thumbnails, dynamic format support, DCOP interface, KEXIF and

KIPI KDE Image Plugin Interface (usually abbreviated to Kipi or KIPI) is an API that allows creation of application-independent image processing plugins in the KDE project. Host applications * Digikam * KPhotoAlbum (previously named KimDaBa) * Show ...

plugins support. The current version is 0.8.0 (Dec 07 2007). KSquirrel is under the GPL-2.0-or-later license, and the KSquirrel-libs under the LPGL-2.0-or-later license and other licenses. It support
more than 57 image formats
including PNG,

JPEG JPEG ( ) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and imag ...

, PSD,

APNG Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) is a file format which extends the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) specification to permit animated images that work similarly to animated GIF files, while supporting 24-bit images and 8-bit transparenc ...

GIF The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; or , see pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on 15 June 1987. ...

, WMF,

OpenEXR OpenEXR is a high-dynamic range, multi-channel raster file format, released as an open standard along with a set of software tools created by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), under a free software license similar to the BSD license. It is notabl ...

and many other.

Current status

KSquirrel is abandoned by its original developer since 2008. The image codecs from KSquirrel have been rebranded in 2020 as a lightweight cross-platform image library called SAIL, under the MIT license. However, KSquirrel is still maintained by the TDE team.

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Current status

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