xv replacement

Looking for an image editor to replace xv since it does not compile well on ubuntu
Observations:

gimp - poor, but slow and cumbersome, can not serially open one file at a time, does not remember save directory.

krita - bad, only open one file at a time

konqueror-kim - bad, no cropping

digikam - ok, does not remember which directory you are saving in, but otherwise ok

Aug 7, 2007 update
still looking

mirage - no easy cropping
qiv, xzgv, xli - only an image viewer

xv - downloaded and patched, has display problems

yoltia - no cropping,

giving up and going with digikam