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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: changing priorities
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-01-29 14:42:44
Message-ID: 200401291542.44515.faure () kde ! org
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On Thursday 29 January 2004 15:33, Simon Perreault wrote:
> Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> > May I suggest gwenview as a possible replacement ?
> 
> A replacement to what? KView? Why not Kuickshow?

Yeah, if only kuickshow didn't barf on most http urls and had support for cropping.

> KView is not *the* KDE image viewer. It is not even the kview kpart that 
> is used to view images in konqueror, it is the "embedded image viewer", 
> or something like that, which has zero features, and which I suspect of 
> using KHTML for displaying images.

khtmlimage features progressive loading, which kviewpart doesn't.
And it features khtml-compatible RMB menus, and it's probably faster 
than kviewpart to load.
But it lacks e.g. zooming indeed - you can't have it all ;)

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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