KuickShow is a comfortable image browser/viewer. It displays a filebrowser
where you can select (doubleclick, Return-key or "view" in popupmenu) images
which are then shown.
Images can be displayed either in an own window, as large as the image,
or fullscreen. This is configurable in the options dialog.

The options dialog has some more possibilities:

images can be automatically shrunk to fit onto the screen, if they are larger



you can set the delay time for a slide show


 
you can tell the browser which filetypes to show


 
you can tweak the speed/quality ratio


 


You can display more than one image at a time, by selecting one image, and
another one, and one more, and ...
It will be more fun, if you are not in fullscreen mode, tho ;o)

If you look for a certain file, just enter the first characters of its filename
(in the browser). A small edit window pops up in the bottom-right corner. Once
a matching file is found, it is highlighted. Leave the edit-window by pressing
return or escape.



Image window:
Keyboard shortcuts

PageDown loads the next image
PageUp loads the previous image
Home loads the first image
End loads the last image
+ zooms into the image
- zooms out of the image
* flips the image horizontally
/ flips the image vertically
7 rotates 270° clockwise ( = 90 degrees counterclockwise )
9 rotates 90° clockwise
arrow keys move the image (or rather you, the viewer) if it is larger than the screen
Return toggles between fullscreen and window mode
Spacebar toggles showing the browser
Esc closes the image window (and kuickshow too, if you don't have a browser window open
b / B lightens / darkens the image
c / C adds / removes contrast
g / G more / less gamma
Enter rerenders the image in original settings/size
Ctrl-s opens a filedialog to save the current image
Delete deletes the current image
Shift-Delete deletes the current image without asking
Ctrl-q quits KuickShow 


Mouse usage

right button opens popupmenu with several options
left button (held) + move moves image, if it doesn't fit into the window
Shift+left button held + move let's you mark a rectangle to zoom into


Browser window:
Keyboard shortcuts

Return enters a directory, or opens an image window
PageDown advances one page
PageUp moves back one page
Home selects the first file/directory
End selects the last file/directory
Spacebar toggles showing the browser, if an imagewindow is open
"any character" opens a small editfield used for "filecompletion". Enter the first characters of a filename to search for, and if found, it will be selected
Ctrl-g "goto", let's you enter a directory, where to go to
F1 opens online help
Delete deletes the current file
Shift-Delete deletes the current file without asking
Ctrl-q quits KuickShow


Mouse usage

Single leftclick enters a directory, or selects an image window
Single rightclick opens popup window with several options
doubleclick opens image window



Commandline parameters
You can pass KuickShow a commandline parameter:
Start it as

kuickshow /home/user/images/bla.jpg

The image bla.jpg will be displayed and the browser will show you the 
directory contents of /home/user/images. The browser is hidden until you hit
the space bar, tho.
If you just give a directory as commandline, e.g.

kuickshow /usr/local/images/

it will just open that directory.
You can also drop images from kfm onto the image window (not the filebrowser!).


Bugs / Limitations

Printing does work, but is very limited. Printed images are stretched to fully 
fit on the page, which is probably not what you always want :-}

filebrowser gives lots of asserts and flickers.
This happens only in old kdelibs, the current KDE 1.1 is fixed.

somehow, the fullscreen mode doesn't work correctly, when kwm is in
"ShapeMode", i.e. using shaped windows from some theme. and also doesn't work
properly with other windowmanagers than kwm

You can't browse multiple directories by opening more than one image window.