MagicLantern is a small GPL'd image viewer. It's Cocoa and it's fast to load. In this sense it can be used as a replacement of Preview as the default image viewer.
Another useful feature is it's ability to navigate through images in the same folder. Open one and use arrows to view them all.
The worst thing of MagicLantern are icons it puts to documents if you chose to use it as a default image viewer. They have the same icon of the application, and while it is good as an application icon, it's quite inappropriate for documents.
First it does not appear as a "document icon" (most document have the usual rectangular shape with an edge folded and that identifies them immediteley as documents), second different kind of images (eg tif and jpg) do not have different icons. If you don't use extensions or you keep them hidden it is not immediate to understand which kind of image you are dealing with.
I'm not a graphician, but a programmer, so I'm not the right person to draw the icons (and in my software I have similar problems), so I hope someone will do the icons.
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