From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EmELo-00072Y-Md for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:54:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBDHqZog016797; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:52:35 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBDHlCms026849 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:47:12 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EmEF5-0003JU-RH for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:47:12 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EmEAy-0001yE-P8 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:42:57 +0100 Received: from adsl-68-74-75-186.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net ([68.74.75.186]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:42:56 +0100 Received: from reader by adsl-68-74-75-186.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:42:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: reader@newsguy.com Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: kview missing 50% of its menus - what to install? Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:39:34 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87d5k0suxl.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87wti9afh5.fsf@newsguy.com> <87d5k1t5up.fsf@newsguy.com> <7573e9640512130909r341258b3t30e13c6cf078ccbf@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-68-74-75-186.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VNeg3/2Pe3xYCVkckwRSkgZjxfk= Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id jBDHqZox016797 X-Archives-Salt: 42509b33-bf8a-4096-9b84-4304b14458b3 X-Archives-Hash: fe90465847a987e313ccfd6601629539 Richard Fish writes: > On 12/13/05, reader@newsguy.com wrote: >> My kview browser does not have a `Filter menu' and so no `gamma >> factor' either. > > The current kview documentation > (http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdegraphics/kview/) makes no reference > to a 'Filter' menu, but does have an Effects menu, which you are What gentoo offers as stable does have such a reference=20 >>From section `Stirring the paste' of kview hand book' accessed from help menu on kview: We wanted to be creative, didn't we? KView provides some filter functions to manipulate images. They are (conveniently) placed in the Filter menu. Firstly, we will change the so-called =E2=80=9Cgamma factor=E2=80=9D. This value affects mostly the mid-tones in the picture= , leaving the brightest and darkest parts more or less untouched. Choose Filter->Intensity->Gamma correct from the menu bar. A dialog box appears. Change the value to 0.4 and hit the OK button. The picture is somewhat darker now: > missing. However, again according to the documentation, the Effects > menu is only displayed if you turn on "Settings->Configure > KView->Application->Plugins->Effects". This documentation, and the > version I am using, are probably more recent than 3.4.1, but maybe > there is something similar in 3.4.1. Turns out there is something similar that does at least allow gamma correction. Apparently the installed handbook is out of date in comparision to the software tool. But that still leaves a few other menus that are missing. Do you see anything that looks like it might be this reference: From header:=20 `Cluttering up your desk' The great moment has finally come: Choose Desktop->Desktop Tile and ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^=20 admire your incredibly artistic background: --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list