This help documentation is updated on Jul. 28, 1997 for KView 0.11.2
KView is an image view tool for the KDE project. Currently KView is able to diplay jpeg, gif, XPM, XBM PNM, BMP, PCX, ILBM, TGA and EPS graphic formats. As being a KDE applocation, KView supports drag and drop and uses the kdehelp-browser to display this text.
Installation of KView is very easy, since KDE uses Automake and Autoconf to make compiling and installing as easy as possible. Just take the kdeapps package and do
and everything will work fine. Nevertheless the following is needed:
You can find the latter libraries on any KDE-ftp Server in the kdesupport package. But usually they are already installed on your system.
KView displays usually two windows: the first one to show the images ("image window") and a second one ("display manager") to manipulate the content of the first one.
We consider the display manager first. It consists out of the following window elements: a menubar, two toolbars, a listbox, a slider and a selection box.
The menubar
The contents of the menubar are rather self explanatory, because it contains only a minimum set of options. Further options will be added in future versions.
The lisbox
The listbox contains the entries of all pictures you like to view. It is filled usually via the command line, e.g. use
kview $KDEDIR/lib/pics/wallpapers/*
to view all installed wallpapers. You can also fill up the listbox via Drag'n'drop (see below) or by loading other pics with the "fileopen" button. By double-click on a listbox entry, this entry gets loaded in the image window. If this load task fails somehow, this listbox entry gets deleted.
The first toolbar
is intended to access the standard functions. From top to bottom:
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The second toolbar
selects images out of the filelist. Either manually or automatically
The next three buttons load pictures in the image window automatically.
stops a running picture show. |
The slider is used to change the speed for the automatic picture shows.
The Selection box is used to select the image window for the next operations. The number in the selection box corresponds to the number of the image window.
KView, of course, accepts Drag'n'Drop (currently only Drop implemented) Internet-wide.This means that drag an image out of the filemanager or from the desktop and let it drop either on the image window or on the display manager. If you let it drop on an image window, it gets automatically loaded, whereas on the display manager only the listbox gets filled with the URL of the pixmap.
The image window offers you some poor possibilities to modify the picture (KView is unfortunately no image manipulation tool because it is not possible to save images. Maybe this will come later). Press the right mouse button on the image and you get a popup menu with the following entries.
Zoom Zoom the image in the sizes -50%, -10%, +10%, +50%
Rotate Rotate the picture clockwise or anti-clockwise or mirror the image on the x or y axis
To Desktop puts this image as a background picture or your desktop. You can select between tiled, maximum picture size and the maximum perpectively correct picture size.
Fit window size to picture size -clear
Fit picture size to window size Resize the image window use this function to see how this works.
Version 0.11.2 (Martin Hartig)
Version 0.11.0 (Martin Hartig)
Version 0.10.0 (Sirtaj Singh Kang)
Version 0.8.1 (Martin Hartig)
Version 0.8.0 (Torben Weis)
Version 0.7 and all previous realeases by Sirtaj Singh Kang
The icons for the show handling appear as dark squares when disabled. It is a matter of the icon format. Dont't complain - draw new icons!
Please report bugs to the kde-mailing list
kde@fiwi2.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de
or directly to the authors .
Kview is written by Sirtaj Singh Kang and Martin Hartig .
This help file is written by Martin Hartig