Viewing photos
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I clicked on a photo just now to have a look at it, and 7.0 beta 3 tried to open it in the icon editor. I'm sure it wasn't doing that before. I noticed DigiKam got updated this morning and wonder if that had anything to do with it. I know there was another photo viewer in KDE only the other day, though I can't remember what it was called -- something beginning with K probaby 
Is it just my system that's lost it, or is this a beta upgrade thing?
I had the same problem..
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I had the same problem with a clean install of beta4, I solved the problem by going to Kcontrol center, KDE Components, File Associations, image and changed the Application Preference Order to "showfoto".
If Konqueror is open you will need to close it in order for the new file association to take affect.
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Ah, ShowFoto! No K in it at
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Ah, ShowFoto! No K in it at all
Yes, indeed it was missing. I've reinstalled it, but the new version doesn't seem to work properly. The photos it shows are very pixellated, except in slide show mode, and the zoom controls don't work. Obviously some sort of bug there...
Working fine here
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Are you sure you did a reload and got a new list of packages before installing it?
It works fine on my PC. Zoom controls, etc. all work great.
I'd try reinstalling it and see what happens.
Do you have the same issues in digiKam? They share a lot of libraries. If so, you may want to try removing and reinstalling both digiKam and showFoto.
I'm running an updated Beta 3. But, I originally installed both digiKam 0.9.2 and showFoto 0.6.0 from Debian Testing (where warren probably got the packages since I sent him a note about them needing updating).
I removed them and reinstalled them from the Mepis repos after Warren added the newer versions, and they seem to work fine here that way, too.
If reinstalling them doesn't work, let me know and I'll try reinstalling Beta 4 from scratch and see if I see the same issue after updates.
Jim C.
Solved!
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Ha! Problem solved! After some fiddling about I discovered that Showfoto has been loading with the thumbnail view at fullscreen, and the normal view pushed off to the right of the window. I dragged the divider over to the left, the thumbnail shrank down to a sensible size and the real image appeared!
Don't know how it came to be set like that, it's certainly nothing I've done, but if it's a bug, at least it's a minor one!
Ummmmm....isn't anyone else
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Ummmmm....isn't anyone else dissatisfied with the (IMHO) clunky ShowFoto? Kuickshow seems to me to be the quickest and easiest way to navigate trough a directory of image files before going about editing same with the GIMP.
Or...am I off-base, here?
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I agree with you 100% I
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I agree with you 100% I still use Kuickshow instead of ShowFoto. It suits my needs far better.
But, as I understand it, Kuickshow is an "orphaned" program. It doesn't look like anyone has been maintaining it since 2003. I don't happen to know of any bugs in the last version - but I do understand why Warren doesn't use an orphaned program in the default install.
Ooo!
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(Installs Kuickshow to see what the fuss is about)
Oh! Yes, that's much more quick and useful if you just want to have a quick look at a few photos. Thank you
RAW Files, Color Management, etc.
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showFoto supports raw files (and many new DSLR owners are shooting with raw versus jpeg now). You can't view those types of files with kuickshow,
The newer showfoto versions also support 16 bit editing, color management (support for ICC Profiles) and more.
With each new release of digiKam, many of same features have been moved into showFoto (because some of the same libraries and plugins are shared between them).
For example, the older digiKam 0.8.2 or showfoto releases did not support 16 bit editing or color management. The newer 0.9.x versions do. The same thing appies to the newer versions of showFoto (old versions had no support for these features, newer versions do).
You can read more about the new features on this page:
http://www.digikam.org/?q=about/features09x
Although showfoto doesn't have the same image management features (no albums, etc.), it does support many of the same viewing and editing functions (because of the libraries and plugins it's shares with digiKam).
http://www.digikam.org/?q=image/tid/24
digiKam requires you to import images into an album to view or edit them. showFoto allows you to view or edit images without importing them first.
I can't even see half of my images with kwikshow (because it doesn't even have basic support for raw files)
Jim C.
I see what you mean about
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I see what you mean about RAW files, though it's not a problem I have myself. I think the point is that sometimes you just want to have a quick look at a picture fullscreen, and (particularly on an older computer), Showfoto takes time to load, because it's loading lots of editing tools that you don't want to use anyway. It's like loading Kino to watch an mpeg, when MPlayer will do.
Try Gwenview
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I cannot abide by ShowFoto - it is so slow and does not let me easily click through the photos in a directory. I always install Gwenview and then modify the file associations.
I miss Kuickshow, but Gwenview is up-to-date and nearly as good.
Quote:You can't view those
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You can't view those types of files with kuickshow,
Mind you, Jim, I have no idea if this is the case, because I'm shooting in TIFF instead of RAW; and KS supports TIFF straight-off; so, treat this as a WAG based on a (perhaps faulty) recollection of .deb names I buzzed-by in KPackage a few months back, and the decided lack of RAW support as a priority.
On this end of the wire, I use kuickshow to haul through a directory of images and do some fast compares to select one to work with, then it gets dumped into the GIMP for edits.
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A bit of snooping around leads me to believe that adding libdcraw will net one at least Canon RAW support (along with noteworthy others); however, RAW images are a proprietary quagmire right now (even DNG is controversial as a proposition). My reaction is that RAW is best left to absolute necessity, until there's some sort of consensus among the manufacturers.
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Kuickshow does happen to be in the 7.0 repos:
ftp://ftp.mepis.com mepis-7.0/main kuickshow_4:3.5.7-3mepis1
...for what it's worth.
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It was probably ShowFoto
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Reinstall ShowFoto. It was also updated to the latest final version in the Mepis repos. But, it may have been uninstalled during the digiKam update and didn't get reinstalled.
If you use Synaptic, just click the Reload button, then search for ShowFoto and install it.
Or, you can do it from a console as root like this:
su
apt-get update
apt-get install showfoto
Jim C.