Linux for Designers

If you have a bunch of Photoshop images (PSD) and you like to view them on Linux with the Gnome desktop you struggled very fast. There are just old image viewers (like GTKsee, or Xnview for Linux) with an ugly interface that support PSD files well or there is a big hole.
There is a simliar problem with Gimp XCF files. Nobody write a GTK pixbuf loader for these formats. So native Gnome image viewers can't show them because most of them using GTK pixbuf loaders for showing the images. And that's very bad for designers and artists because most of them use XCF, PSD and may CPT (Core Photopaint) for their work.

On my Ubuntu linux i found a solution for that problem. I'm using Wine 0.9.27 and XnView for Windows.

There are two tweaks for running it smooth:

• tell XnView in the options (F12) to use the registry for store settings (if not anything will be lost after closing XnView)
  
• change the ugly Win95 colors of Wine by running the Wine registry editor and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors and setup the colors you like.
  
• I know Wine can load Windows styles and there are nice ones like Clearlooks and Human, but my experiences are that these themes let Wine runing slow.