Re: [kde] [EDITORIAL] Re: How to build kuickshow?

On Sunday 28 September 2008 21:44:49 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 28 September 2008 13:44:39 Jonathan Rawle wrote:
> I've solved my problem before my message was approved! I downloaded
> the
>
> latest kdegraphics 3.5 source and was able to build that again the

version

> of KDE that comes with CentOS, then install just Kuickshow.
>
>
>
> I see why RedHat don't include Kuickshow: some dependencies such as
> ImLib
>
> are not included in RHEL, I had to get them from third party

repositories.

> Does anyone know if Kuickshow is still being maintained? There

doesn't seem

> to be a page for it at KDE Extragear.

I'm not certain, but I suspect not, as I can't find anything recent
either. Some of the functionality is on ShowFoto, and Gwenview can do
everything Kuickshow did and more, I think, especially with kipi
plugins, although users of KDE 4 still don't have the plugins. Since
you're running KDE 3.5 I would think that Gwenview + kipi plugins is
your best bet.

Yes, Kuickshow is an orphan. It was decided that it would be dropped
since Gwenview conformed to the way KDE apps were normally designed.
KView is also an orphan except that I am the maintainer. There were
some political issues with my working on it which I don't understand (If
it is OK to write a new app, why isn't it OK to modify an existing app
so that it conforms to the KDE GUI guidelines?); but the rules said that
I would have to make if version 3.6.x which could not be shipped with
KDE-3.5.x. IAC, Gwenview has turned out to be an excellent application
so I don't see any need to port KView to KDE4 except that I prefer
generic names for applications.

If you like the way that Kuickshow works (separate display window with
no decorations), I suggest that you install ImageMagick. Although it
does not have the advantage (?) of using Imlib. So, ImageMagick makes
it doubly redundant except that it would be nice if the KDE/Qt GUI
option was added to it -- as would be the case with several other
applications. The Sodipodi developer discovered that this wasn't that
difficult to modify the code so that it could be built either for GNOME
or KDE. And, (number 3) another issue, Imlib is also orphaned; it was
replaced by Imlib-2 which is not compatible so Kuickshow would have
needed to be rewritten to use the new library.

All of which says that many 'wish-list' things are possible, but not without
substantial work that can't be taken on by people already well-commited.
IOW, if you have the interest and the capability the KDE project would love to
hear from you.

I love kuickshow too, and I'm sure these issues don't only refer to that one
application.

Anne

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