Bug 318819

Summary:	[FeatureRequest] Panorama and spherical viewer for gwenview
Product:	[Applications] gwenview	Reporter:	FabiB <plusfabi>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Gwenview Bugs <gwenview-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	agateau, blaueshawaiihemd, juan, myriam, saileshpoudel0
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	All
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Description FabiB 2013-04-24 20:03:38 UTC

With android and digikam we can create panarama and globe-view pictures. after that we can upload it to google+ and get this very nice view of the our pictures:
https://plus.google.com/photos/105063207970597478410/albums/5867501150203819665/5867501149865126354

it would be good if gwenview also support a mode like this, where we can look "around" 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make a panorama
2. open it with gwenview
Actual Results:  
the picture is deformed because. we can zoom in but its not like it should be

Expected Results:  
the picture should be formed around a viewpoint, like on google+

Comment 1 Aurelien Gateau 2013-08-08 20:03:52 UTC

Would be nice to have indeed. Not sure how to fit this in the UI though. Is there a way to detect if an image is a "globe"?

Comment 2 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 02:32:39 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.

Comment 3 Juan J. Baca 2022-09-26 12:31:12 UTC

*** Bug 454931 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Juan J. Baca 2022-09-28 10:30:43 UTC

Panoramas (aka sphere, globe or 360 images, as you would like to call them) are getting more and more popular since 360 cameras got cheaper and smarter, among you can take it with your cellphone since years ago (since Android 4.2 camera). People are using them in sports, nature, events, etc... In the end, all of them are panoramas from a few degrees (partial panorama) to 360x180 degrees know as complete panorama.

Nowadays there lot of open source implementations to take them as reference. As far as I now there are a few projection types but the more common is equirectangular. Metadata about panoramas are stored inside jpeg headers as an open standard (ISO 16684-1) aka Adobe XMP. Reference can be readed here: https://developers.google.com/streetview/spherical-metadata

Some opensource projects are:
- https://pchen66.github.io/Panolens/ | https://github.com/pchen66/panolens.js
- https://photo-sphere-viewer.js.org/ | https://github.com/mistic100/Photo-Sphere-Viewer

Hope this add some light and encourage someone to begin working to implement it in gwenview.

Comment 5 saxn 2023-02-23 13:41:00 UTC

specially while using blender 360 render. 
It would be great to show render to client directly using Gwenview.
As a image viewer it is missing for 360.