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What you want is xv. No Gnome bloat, no annoying changes in the UI since 1994, and it runs plenty fast enough. http://www.trilon.com/xv/

Actually all the early browsers didn't have inline attachment support. They either dumped it to a file (Save As...) or based on the MIME type (graphics/jpeg) they would launch an external application like xv.

gd now, with the expiration of the last Unisys patent on the GIF format, support for GIFs has finally been reinserted in gd. The GIF/PNG/MNG wars may continue, but having more options is good!

http://www.trilon.com/xv/index.html

If only we could finally get the next version of John Bradley's late lamented XV now that that patent issue is out of the way.

One notable victim is xv, which has also been held back because of the Unisys GIF patent nonsense.

While xv's functionality is limited compared to other image viewers and editors, it's a classic utility program that enabled millions of college students to...ummm...view downloaded images in their dorm rooms at night when no-one else is around...

What would be cool is if xv 3.20 could be released soon.

In case you're too young to remember, xv is the program everyone used for looking at whatever they downloaded from alt.binaries.pictures.* around 1990 +/-. Without xv and the newsgroups to fuel it, the bandwidth demands of the developing internet would have been much smaller and there would have been less of a need for the fiber-optic build out later in the 90's.

It's a tiny program, but it was the leading edge for the investment of hundreds of billions of dollars in internet infrastructure.

1. pico for quick editing before I've got X up and running.
   
2. NEdit the best programmers' text editor ever!
   
3. fvwm2 a good, fast, customizable window manager (I suffer through twm until this is in place)
   
4. ddd a simply wonderful front-end to gdb.
   
5. mozilla my browser of choice, warts and all (though konquerer is giving me second thoughts)
   
6. xscreensaver nothing makes me happier than xmatrix.
   
7. xpdf simple PDF viewer, no frills.
   
8. ROX-filer a fast and simple file system browser (though I've been leaning towards konquerer for about a year)
   
9. unclutter makes the mouse cursor disappear after several second of inactivity.
   
10. xv in case I need to fiddle with image files.
    
11. xine in case I need to watch a movie.
    

On top of this I have a set of configuration files archived for several of the above programs (i.e. fvwm2 and NEdit) and general system setup (fstab, XFree86, and bash/sh profile).

Some people have reported seeing engineers using Xv in the background of tv reports.

http://www.trilon.com/xv/xvtv.html

You probably shouldn't be blaming the "network code" for slowing your computer "in some cases".

Do you know that if you run a Linux desktop with the X Window System and GNOME/KDE, you are not necessarily using the networking features of X?

To use the networking features of X on your computer, you would need to login, over a network such as the internet, from your computer, which is running an X server like XFree86, to a remote computer, and, on that remote computer, start an X application, like xv , which would be displayed on your computer's display by having the remote computer communicate the graphics over the network to your computer's display. That's an example of actually using the networking features of X. That would also be slow unless you use a protocol accelerator/compressor for X which makes X completely usable even over a slow 28kbps network connection.

Does this mean we might actually see another release of xv? John Bradley has been holding off on a new release for years because of the GIF patent issue. Ironically, perhaps the best feature that'll be in the new release will be built-in PNG support (as apposed to having to download a patch or a patched copy of xv to get this).

hello, please make me a crack for xv, its open source and has an annoying you have not registered message.

"Shareware + source" might be interesting, even with a non-RMS-compliant license, but I haven't seen it. (And of course, I'd prefer full GPL if possible.)

The popular UNIX image manipulator xv is "shareware + source".