Viewing Images with Konqueror

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 Image View 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 “normal” view again, click Icon View or Tree View in the toolbar.

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 Tools+Create Image Gallery. 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 OK 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.

Figure 4.2. Creating an Image Gallery with Konqueror

Creating an Image Gallery with Konqueror

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).