KuickShow v0.8

NEWS

Since the last release of KuickShow (0.6.7), a lot has happened. The Qt and KDE libraries have much improved; parts of it have been rewritten completely. This affects especially KuickShow's filebrowser and the interaction with the window manager. The current version of KuickShow has so far only been tested with "kwin", the WM of KDE2. Please report eventual problems with other window managers, I'll try to fix them.

Two things that users of the previous KuickShow versions (<= 0.6.7) might miss:


KuickShow is a comfortable image browser/viewer. It displays a filebrowser where you can select images which are then shown. Select them by either clicking with the mouse on them, hitting return or choosing "Show Image" in the context menu. The following image formats are supported: jpg, gif, tiff, png, bmp, psd, xpm, xbm, pbm, xcf, eim. Images can be displayed either in an own window, as large as the image, or fullscreen. This is configurable in the options dialog.

Further options in the configuration dialog:

The second page of the dialog offers options for modifying the appearance of images:

The geometry and image modifications are shown in a preview image. The left image shows the original image, the right one shows the same image with the modifications applied. All the settings of this page are also available as keyboard shortcuts or in the context menu of the image viewer.

In the next two pages, the shortcuts for the image viewer and the filebrowser can be configured.



Image window:

Keyboard shortcuts Mouse usage

Browser window:

Keyboard shortcuts Mouse usage

If you're looking for a certain file in the current directory, just enter the first characters of its filename (in the browser). A small editfield will pop up in the bottom-right corner. Once a matching file is found, it is highlighted. Pressing return will show the image or enter the directory, depending on whether it's a file or directory. You can leave the edit-window by pressing escape.

Commandline parameters

You can pass KuickShow commandline parameters: By starting it as

kuickshow /home/user/images/bla.jpg

n window showing the given image will appear. The filebrowser will be hidden until you press Space. When showing the filebrowser, it will open the directory of the given filename. If you give more than one images on the commandline, the browser will show the directory of the last image.


If you just specify a directory on the commandline, e.g.

kuickshow /usr/local/images/

it will just open a browser with that directory. The path to an image or a directory can be both absolute or relative.

You can also drop images from the KDE filemanager onto an image window or the filebrowser.


Configuration file

The configuration of KuickShow will be saved in the file $KDEHOME/share/config/kuickshowrc. If the environment variable KDEHOME is not set, it will get substituted by $HOME. You can manually modify or delete the config file as long as kuickshow is not running (otherwise your changes will be overwritten). It will use the new settings (or the defaults if you deleted the file) from the next start on.


Bugs / Limitations

See the Changelog for details on KuickShow development.

New versions of KuickShow are available at http://master.kde.org/~pfeiffer/kuickshow/.


Author:
Carsten Pfeiffer carpdjih@sp.zrz.tu-berlin.de / pfeiffer@kde.org

Credits:
Rober Hamberger rh474@bingo-ev.de
Thorsten Scheuermann uddn@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de