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PikView-0.9.0 for KDE released

First new version in a long time...

* Major alterations and rewrites for KDE2 support (There are now less lines of code for a stack of new features - thanks to some new QT classes from the Trolls)
* Drag-and-drop moving / copying inside PikView and to/from Konqueror
* Watches for updates to directories ImageMagick >5.2 support
* Improved geometry management
* Can rename items in thumbnail view
* Delete key deletes selected images
* New undocumented key combinations
* Konqueror embedding - view images with PikView inside Konqueror (Zoom, Pan, Rotate etc)
* Streamlined code
* Other stuff I can't remember
* No updates to the documentation have been made yet

Posted by Andrew Richards 2001-03-11

PikView - image viewer: First Public Release

Homepage, download and screenshots at: http://pikview.sourceforge.net/

PikView is an image viewer which uses the KDE libraries. It can
read the following image types: png, jpeg, tiff, gif, netpbm (and via
the (optional) ImageMagick library - eps, pict, dcx, pcx, mif, bmp, viff,
pnm).

The following features are supported: asynchronous preloading, zooming,
thumbnails (cachable), rapid image filing, fullscreen, printing, slideshow,
flicker-free repainting.... read more

Posted by Andrew Richards 2000-03-23