[kde-linux] KuickShow under KDE 4

[James Richard Tyrer]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 June 2009 09:07:55 jim wrote:
>> Ive been trying to find a way to obtain KuickShow ever since I installed
>> Fedora 10/KDE 4.1.2.   I thought it was available from kde-extra-gear but
>> was unable to find it there. I recieved a nice email from the author,
>> Carsten Pfeiffer, stating there was a version for KDE4, that is shipped
>> with Mandriva Linux.
>>
>> Would I be able to somehow obtain and install that version on my
>> Fedora 10 system? Or will it eventually be generally available for KDE 4?
>>
>> I really need KuickShow as it is the only image viewer that I know that
>> allows one to add/view annotations to jpeg images. (meta-info
>> user-comments).in any directory where there are photos.
>>
> Jim - not answering your question, but this is relevant.  I had a long 
> conversation with Carsten a week or two back.  The Mandriva version is running 
> on this laptop (Mandriva 2009.1), but only if I set my video card to use XAA, 
> which is unfortunate because XAA causes other problems on the laptop.  If I 
> set it to EXA, which solves my other problems, Kuickshow gives serious screen 
> corruption.
> 
> We established that this is not true for all ATi or Intel cards, but Carsten 
> would appreciate any feedback on whether the issue occurs with other cards.
> 
I concur, ImLib and EXA don't work well together.  KuickShow looks like 
the H hold on a TV is way off.

I hadn't tried it because there is some question of whether you should 
use EXA with XCB on a Radeon.

Perhaps the solution would be to port ImLib to XCB.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch