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Re: KuickShow for KDE 2.1
by me on Friday 16/Mar/2001, @10:05

Hi Carsten!

Thanks for your reply! Since I see you're interested in suggestions, I would like to tell you some more features and things I'd love in KuickShow.

I work at a photographer, and there's a huge archive of pics, so a viewer like this is really a must. First, I think its wrong to have the app split up into several windows at the same time, one of them always resizing when you select a different picture. I think i'd be great when you either had to double click or selecte&ENTER a pic to change from thumbnail preview (with dirTree & preview) to fullscreen single-pic mode with zoom feature.

Also, another must-have feature is the creation of contact sheets. These are basically thumbnailpages, just for printing. It would be nice to be able to select how many rows & columns of pictures should be on a page, and determining the thumbnail size from that. Also, one should be able to optionally title the pics with their attributes (filename, size, format etc.)

The preview pane: It does make sense. Besides being configurable (you can kill it), this preview panes obviously allows you to view some more details of the pictures. This is very helpful, since (at least where I work), pictures only differ by a few small details, and this is the place you can find that out, before you have to load the full picture. This really isn't fun when you're working on a 200MB tiff.

Ermm, also: Wouldn't this be a great place to integrate thekompany's gphoto io-slave? I dunno how, but it kinda fits in there from the user's perspective...
Of course, all of KuickShow could also be a KPart, integrated into Konq, but I think this is going a bit too far.

Thank you!

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Re: KuickShow for KDE 2.1
by Carsten Pfeiffer on Saturday 17/Mar/2001, @04:38

hmm, ok, I'm sort of convinced about the preview thing :)

For the contact sheets, I see your need for it and agree it's a nice thing, but it is somewhat specialized (in another thread, it would be called bloat ;) I could add a plugin architecture so those sort of things could be added without affecting others. Actually, there is a kimgalleryplugin for Konqueror, which could be extended to do such things. Currently, it generates an html-page with all the images in one directory.

For the gphoto-ioslave, I will add support for that and remote files before 1.0

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