[kde-linux] KuickShow under KDE 4

[david]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 25 June 2009 16:05:08 jim wrote:
>> Anne, Rex, Tyrer
>>
>> Thanks for the help/info on Kuickshow. It sounds like there is
>> a chance I will be able to get it working on my system
>> eventually. I only need it for viewing photos and the corresponding
>> imbedded user comments (metadata-info). I use ImageMagick
>> (and occasionally gimp) for image manipulation.
>> As far as video cards, ill have to do some research on your inputs, I'm
>> not familiar with the XAA vs EXA issue. My video card is an 'NVIDIA
>> GeForce FX' (desktop workstation).
>>
> http://userbase.kde.org/GPU-Performance is one place to start, but cards vary 
> so much, even ones that are similar/same names, that it seems trial and error 
> is the only viable method.
> 
>> Anne, yes digikam allows one to view/add/edit user metadata but I
>> have hundreds of photos already organized in directories and don't
>> wish to have to import them into a collection of 'albums'. I'm old
>> fashioned and prefer the freedom of cmd line vs GUI for most of my work.
>>
> :-)  Oh good - I'm not the only old-fashioned so-and-so.  I looked at digkam 
> once, saw that it was album-biased and decided it was not for me.  That's a 
> pity because it supports kipi-plugins, but then so does gwenview, which is 
> fine for my needs.

Maybe KPhotoAlbum? Of course, not a CLI app ...

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