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ACDSee
by Justin on Friday 16/Mar/2001, @13:08
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Definitely. I think everyone wants an ACDSee style program. I actually wanted to start a project like this, but it looks like I don't need to now. =)
My only real quibble is that the UI is a bit strange. If I use the file dialog, then it doesn't go away when I load an image. If I launch an image directly, then I don't get the file dialog (is there a way to bring it up?)
Both Kview and Pixie have similar issues with UI. Maybe I'm just used to ACDSee. IMO, the best part about ACDSee was that it was quick and was associated with every image type. No more loading huge image programs just to view one file. I just click on one, and navigate with pageUp/pageDown. ACDSee is actually quite more than that, but I believe most of it is probably unnecessary. The program has since doubled in size since I last downloaded it. Bloat anyone?
I wonder if there should be some organization between Kuickshow, Kview, and Pixie. Kview and Pixie seem to be confused, as they share some features, and not others. I think we should have just two programs: Kuickshow (which is what Kview probably should be) and Krayon (for editing).
Just something to throw out there! ;)
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Re: ACDSee
by Carsten Pfeiffer on Saturday 17/Mar/2001, @03:30
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> Definitely. I think everyone wants an ACDSee style program. I actually wanted to start a project like this, but it looks like I don't need to now. =)
Well, contributors are always welcome :)
> If I use the file dialog, then it doesn't go away when I load an image. If I launch an image directly, then I don't get the file dialog (is there a way to bring it up?)
You can press Space to toggle showing the filebrowser. When launching kuickshow with an image as parameter I don't want to see the browser (I give it an image on the commandline to... well, see the image). If you give it a directory on the commandline, it will open the browser in that directory.
> ACDSee is actually quite more than that, but I believe most of it is probably unnecessary. The program has since doubled in size since I last downloaded it. Bloat anyone?
That's my impression, too. The early versions had all the functionality I needed and it was very fast and loaded quickly. Maybe others need all the new functionality, but for me it was just slowing it down.
> I wonder if there should be some organization between Kuickshow, Kview, and Pixie. Kview and Pixie seem to be confused, as they share some features, and not others. I think we should have just two programs: Kuickshow (which is what Kview probably should be) and Krayon (for editing).
This differences between these programs are:
KView as a standalone program has about the same functionality as KuickShow. I think it has a few things KuickShow doesn't, like Wallpaper generation for example, but this can be added to KuickShow easily. But, KView also offers an embeddable KPart, used in Konqueror for example. I won't make a KPart of KuickShow, because it just doesn't make sense. Embedded into another app, you lose all the advantages of KuickShow (fullscreen, the filebrowser, switching between the files via PageUp/Down, resizing the image window).
The author of KView had the idea that we might use KuickShow as the standalone imageviewer and KView as the embeddable part in KDE.
With Pixie, the main advantages IMHO are the plugins/effects/image editing capabilities. I don't personally need such stuff (when I do, I use Gimp at the moment, and later probably Krayon).
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