[kde-linux] KuickShow under KDE 4

[James Richard Tyrer]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday 24 June 2009 13:23:46 Rex Dieter wrote:
>>> James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>> The code is in SVN, and I compiled it from source.
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>> Contact Rex Dieter.
>>>> Well, I'll just CC him and see what he thinks.
>>> Sure, it's possible to do install/run kde3 apps like kuickshow (from
>>> kdegraphics-3.5.x) within a kde4 installation.
>>>
>> Rex, kuickshow-0.9.1-1mdv2009.1 is the KDE 4 version - confirmed by
>> Carsten.
> 
> Ah, apologies... ok, found it at
> stable/4.2.3/src/extragear/kuickshow-0.9.1-kde4.2.3.tar.bz2
> 
> I'll see about whipping up a fedora pkg.
> 
Thanks.  Probably, be a good idea to add the fact that it might not work 
with EXA to the README file.

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James Tyrer

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