You can also easily use Konqueror as image viewer. For a quick and comfortable overview of all images in a directory, select the directory and click the normal” view again, click or in the toolbar.
icon in the toolbar. Konqueror generates thumbnails and shows them on the left-hand side of the window. Click a thumbnail to see the full-size view of the picture on the right-hand side of the window. A number of additional icons appears in the toolbar for navigating back and forth, zooming or rotating the pictures, or creating a slide show. To toggle to “
Apart from this functionality, you can also create image galleries that
show your images in an album-like fashion. Open your image directory in
Konqueror and click + . A dialog opens
where you can specify the background and foreground colors, the page
title, the location to save the gallery, and other settings. Click
to start the action. By default, a file called
index.html
is created. If you click this file in
Konqueror, your images are displayed in a miniaturized, organized view.
Click an image to access its full-size view.
For viewing your images, you can also use Gwenview. To start Gwenview, press Alt+F2 and enter gwenview. For further information about Gwenview, see the Gwenview online help.
For downloading and editing photographs from digital cameras, you can use digiKam as described in Chapter Managing Your Digital Image Collection (↑Application Guide).