Gloobus is a sexy file previewer for your Gnome desktop

Filed under: Utilities, Linux, Open Source

Gloobus-Preview is a truly awesome extension for the GNOME Desktop environment for Linux. It gives you a full screen preview of most file types. Based on Apple's Quicklook you can, for example, display the currently played mp3 including a cover window and lyrics on your desktop while playing music with your favorite player like Amarok or Songbird.

In other words, you can access a huge number of file types without first launching the applications associated with that file first. It's useful for browsing your pictures (from, say, last night pub) or to create a simple slide show on your desktop.

Gloobus can currently preview over 40 file formats including image, document, audio, video, and programming language files.
Ubuntu and all Debian based distributions can get Gloobus installed by downloading the .deb file, Archlinux users can download their package here. For any other Linux distribution you can compile Gloobus from the source code.

Gloobus is a sexy file previewer for your Gnome desktop originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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