This chapter is a quick tour through many of KView's functions to get you quickly going to work with this program. You will find a complete description of all available commands in later chapters.
The image in this tutorial comes from the kdeartwork package of KDE. The kdeartwork package is full of things to spice up your desktop, and well worth checking out, but if you haven't installed it, just choose another file to follow along with.
After you have started KView (using the panel menu, or typing kview at the command prompt) the KView main window shows up with an empty workspace:
A fresh new KView window
All those creative people like you and me are discouraged by an empty sheet, so let's quickly open a new image. However, first we change the way that KView resizes its main window and the image after loading a new one: Select from the menu. A dialog leaps up:
To resize or not to resize
Select “No Resize” from the “On Load” group box. This means that neither the KView main window nor the image will be resized after loading.
Now open Dasding.jpg
which you find in the ./share/wallpapers
subdirectory of your main KDE
path (possibly /opt/kde
or /opt/kde2
). Ahh - that's looking better!
A beautiful image loaded...