[ALUG] Re: Tool for managing images

[Richard Lewis]

On Monday 09 July 2007 20:36:47 Chris G wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 03:27:14PM +0100, Ten wrote:
> > On Monday 09 July 2007 15:22:16 Chris G wrote:
> > > What do people recommend for managing images (i.e. hundreds of digital
> > > camera pictures)?  I don't fant a full blown image manipulation and
> > > album creation thing like digikam, I want a basic file manager that
> > > will show me thumbnail images and allow me to drag and drop them
> > > around the place.
> >
> > In that case just use Konqueror, which has varying degrees of
> > image-orientatedness depending on what you want.
>
> Yes, that's pretty close to what I'm after, thanks.  The only issue at
> the moment is that it's not displaying thumbnails for my .jpg files,
> it's just showing a camera icon.  Is there a setting I can change
> somewhere so it shows thumbnails?

There are two possible settings that are relevant: photo view, a special mode 
which shows thumbnails down the right-hand side and a full view in the main 
body of Konqueror; and there's also the more generic icon view mode. Check 
Konqueror's Settings | Configure Konqueror | Previews and Metadata to make 
sure that the "file" protocol (under "Local Protocols") is checked and maybe 
increase the maximum filesize for previews. Note, however, that it takes 
longer to make thumbnails of larger images.

Also, have you seen pr0nview 
<http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/pornview> ;-)

Cheers,
Richard
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