Re: Opening Kuickshow in a given directory

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:11:56 GMT, Tweedale staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
On 11 Aug 2006 at 19:39, Yugo wrote:
Dances With Crows wrote:
Yugo wrote:
Everytime I open Kuickshow, I have to select my photo directory.
There must be some way to have it open showing a selected directory.
I've checked all the menus, read help, Googled for about half an
hour and I can't find a way to achieve this utmostly complex goal.
samantha:~/Text$ kuickshow /home/me/pics/

...is that what you wanted? Or did you mean the --lastfolder option
Yes, that's exactly what I wanted. Instead of starting Kuickview by
clicking its icon, I'd rather save time by clicking a console and
entering either: kuickshow /home/me/pics/
This /sounds/ like sarcasm, but I can't tell for sure whether your
response is meant to be comic or tragic.

The part of Yugo's message you snipped showed that it was intended to be
sarcastic. Yugo: Sarcasm doesn't work well in text-only media, since
the whole "sarcastic tone of voice" doesn't translate into ASCII. (I
suppose you could use the <sarcasm> tag, though.) Yugo *did* figure it
out, using the Menu Editor (or the Properties dialog for KDE .desktop
files--both can be used to achieve similar results).

The important part (I think) was that the command I wrote above is
easily reproduced and tried on any Linux system with KDE. And if it did
the thing the OP wanted, the OP had 5 or 6 ways to invoke that command.

Do you really start X programs by navigating through menus and icons
rather than from a terminal??!!

It's much more convenient to click a "VNC:Laptop" icon than it is to
type in "krdc -f -m -p /home/me/.vnc/passwd-laptop 192.168.1.4". I'd
create a shell function that executed that command line if I wanted to
launch that from a shell more than once or twice. People typically do
whatever's most convenient and/or what they're used to. This means
windows, menus, and icons will persist for a while in GUIs thanks to the
installed base.

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