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gwenview: Falling in Love All Over Again

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 10, 2008

“So as I mentioned in my last blog entry … I’ve found myself
falling in love all over again with various KDE apps as I use their
KDE4 incarnations. One of those apps is gwenview, by
Aurélien Gâteau.

“Up until KDE4, we shipped with kuickshow as the entry in the
simple image viewer category. That was originally written by
Carsten Pfeiffer for KDE1. Yes, ‘1’ as in ‘uno’ or ‘ichi’ or
‘before two.’ It was ported to KDE2, KDE3 and even now KDE4. It’s
really fast and has a super simple interface, though it could a
fair number of things like rotate images and crop them. It had an
‘xv’ style of interface, so was rather comfortable for the X11
crowd. I’m amazed that kuickshow is still with us, having been
ported through 2 massive rearchitectures of the KDE API (2 and 4)
and one other major release (3). These days, kuickshow lives in
extragear-graphics…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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