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Bibble

Graphic Apps by asdex 9 comments

It's a Qt app and kde-apps.org has a own category for Qt applications (even closed source ones). - Nov 08 2006

Beesoft Commander

System Software by piotrpsz 52 comments

Krusader works in Gnome, too, as every other KDE and non-KDE application does. - Jul 19 2006

Konqueror-Pro

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by asdex 22 comments

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=22720 - Jun 07 2006

krita-plugins

Graphic Apps by cyb 15 comments

Unsharp mask:
* Previes should start at 100%, otherwise it's impossible to evaluate the result.Zooming in takes very much time (5Megapixel) and it is very difficult to get to exactly 100%
* Switching (at 100%) between Preview and Original moves the visible section of the image.
* "Preview" has different scaling factor compared to "Original"
* Preview (at ~100%) takes way to much time. It seems the whole image is sharpened instead of only the part visible in the preview window.
* Instead of radio buttons for "Original" and "Preview" use a Checkbox "Preview" (see Gimp). Usability of a checkbox is much better.
* Amount of 1.00 or lower does not have any effect. Default amount of 2.0 is too much.
* Progress bar does not work.
* "Threshold" gives artifacts (black pixels)
* Speed is very slow (try a 5MPixel image, half width: 20pix, amount: 1.5)
* Unsharp mask algorithm is incorrect (see bugs.kde.org in a few minutes)

But keep on the good work! - Jun 01 2006

Konqueror-Pro

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by asdex 22 comments

I have moved it to the "Document" menu, next to the "save" and save as" menu entries (where it belongs to...) :-) - May 26 2006

Konqueror-Pro

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by asdex 22 comments

That's not true on my computer.

Either selecting a range or pressing CTRL-A and deleting those files only deletes the correct files.

You need to clear the quickfilter toolbar afterwards to see the remaining files. - May 24 2006

Konqueror-Pro

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by asdex 22 comments

I thought everyone knows this shell-like feature :-)

But there are two differences:
putting e.g. ~/*png into the location bar shows *all* folders and all the png images.
Putting "png" into the quick filter bar only shows the png files.

Additionally the quickfilter toolbar works better on some ftp servers. - May 24 2006

Enchanted Search Tool

System Software by timothysaddress 10 comments

No, please don't.
Not every application has too look as boring as kedit. - May 23 2006

Konqueror-Pro

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by asdex 22 comments

> Sorry, I don't see the advantages of your modifications

That's OK. It's not meant as one-fits-for-all.

> By adding the address bar to the toolbar the address bar becomes very
> short and you cannot see the whole URL.

I don't think it becomes *very* short but never the less you always see the significant last part of the url.

> How about instead of the address bar add the bookmark toolbar as a drop
> down menu to the toolbar (optionally address bar or bookmark toolbar menu
> or both)?

Contrary to the screenshot, my personal bookmark-toolbar is completely filled. And I do not want to need additional clicks to access it. :-)

But if you want, you can modify this profile (or the original profile) to fit your needs. That's the power of KDE. Thanks for your comments. - May 19 2006

3gp movie wizard

Video Apps by dsvilko 60 comments

You don't have to use 600kbit/s every time. But sometimes 400kbit/s might be too less for some high motion trailers at 320x240x24fps. - May 03 2006

3gp movie wizard

Video Apps by dsvilko 60 comments

For new mobile phones the maximum bitrate is way to low:
e.g. a Nokia 6280 has no problems handling 400+ kbit videos.

To allow higher bitrates open file 3gpwiz with an editor:
Before line
if($field{Tskip} eq "false") {
insert
$bitrate_mencoder=$field{Skbps}*2;

Some lines below you find a line beginning with
open ME
Replace vbitrate=400 with vbitrate=$bitrate_mencoder
Save file 3gpwiz.

Open file 3gpwiz.kmdr
Search the line containing
number>160
and replace it with something like
number>600

This allows up to 600kbit/s. - Apr 26 2006

3gp movie wizard

Video Apps by dsvilko 60 comments

The quality of the resulting video files can be improved.

Insert the following line into file 3gpwiz (after line 14)
$videncopt="-nr 200 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -precmp 2 -mv0 1 -cbp 1 -trell 1 -mbd 2";

and change line 370 from

$cmd= "$ffmpeg -y -i $tmpfile.avi -pass $pass -passlogfile $tmpfile -b $field{Skbps} -ss $ss -t $stop -r
$fps $audio -vcodec mpeg4 \"$out\"";

to

$cmd= "$ffmpeg -y -i $tmpfile.avi -pass $pass -passlogfile $tmpfile -b $field{Skbps} -ss $ss -t $stop -r
$fps $audio -vcodec mpeg4 $videncopt \"$out\"";
("$videncopt" has been added (near the end of the line)).

This makes ffmpeg use high quality encoding options. Encoding time is slightly longer, file size stays the same, but quality will be better. - Apr 26 2006

Bibble

Graphic Apps by asdex 9 comments

> A preview is available here :
> http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/new_noisereduction_plugin.png

Nice, does it support noise profiles?

> Nota digiKam is GPL, Bible no !!!

Of course. I'm a big DigiKam fan, but I think the linux market is large enough for commercial *and* open source software. - Mar 14 2006

Bibble

Graphic Apps by asdex 9 comments

> I tried enabling the Ninja Noise Reduction!
> That's when the program crashed

Unbelievable, that this bug is still present in Bibble 4.6a.
I thought it was only in 4.6 (without "a").

So you have to manually downlaod the noiseninja library and copy it into
/usr/lib/bibblelabs/bibblepro/libs/NoiseNinja
(bibblepro)
or
/usr/lib/bibblelabs/bibblelie/libs/NoiseNinja
(bibblelite)

you can download the noiseninja lib from
http://mirror.worldwind.net/pub/bibble/BibblePro/4.6/libnoiseninja.so.2.0.0 - Mar 13 2006

wine menu

Utilities by piggz 4 comments

So what's the difference to the "wine" submenu located in the normal KDE menu? - Mar 12 2006

K3D

Graphic Apps by NNlinux 7 comments

> How utterly freaking clueless are you? KDE is a set of applications and
> an application framework based on kdelibs which is an extention of the
> Qt toolkit. The domain name here specifically references KDE apps.

What's meant with KDE? kdelibs or kdelibs + kde-apps?

I think one of KDE's main problem is that it sees itself as a capsuled area within the free software world.

I think many users see KDE only as a desktop. A desktop where all applications run. The best applications an not only the best KDE applications.

If KDE wnats to survive it needs to open to other applications. KDE should be the desktop under which KDE- and non-KDE-applications run best.

Many KDE-Users use Openoffice, Gimp, Acrobatreader, Helixplayer,...
So why should not KDE's applications site mention those programs? At least those are programs which run under KDE and which ARE used by KDE-users!

Look at http://www.gnomefiles.org/
Most applications in the top-20 are NO gnome applications.

On a site called windows-applications.org you would expect to see windows-appications (mfc, qt, gtk) and not only applications which use microsoft's gui-toolkit, wouldn't you? - Mar 11 2006

w32codec-all-2005

Video Apps by buffcolumbia 12 comments

What should be better? - Mar 05 2006

w32codec-all-2005

Video Apps by buffcolumbia 12 comments

* Why do you copy&paste the whole Mplayer homepage into the description field?

* Why do you name an entry for MPlayer "w32codec-all-2005"? "w32codec-all-2005" is the name of an *optional* package!

@all: KDE has a very nice and powerfull terminal: Konsole
And Mplayer is the best CLI Medialplayer available. So I think an entry on kde-apps.com does not harm.

But this entry is below all standards. - Mar 04 2006

SUSE2 Windeco

KDE 3.x Window Decorations by geflei 83 comments

It would probably be a better default to put one or two spaces between the maximize button and the close button.

Much better usability! - Mar 03 2006

SIR - Simple Image Resizer

Graphic Apps by sachetto 50 comments

That's very bad because qt uses bilinear resizing. - Feb 18 2006

SIR - Simple Image Resizer

Graphic Apps by sachetto 50 comments

Hi,

what resize algorithm do you use? Bicubic, Lanczos,..?

Additionally it would be nice to offer an option to slightly sharpen the image before saving as Jpeg. - Feb 16 2006

GTPY - ImageResizer

Graphic Apps by Gacha 18 comments

Can you adjust the jpeg compression quality? I don't think so, Kim is a service menu while GTPY is a GUI application. - Dec 10 2005

GTPY - ImageResizer

Graphic Apps by Gacha 18 comments

Thanks! - Dec 10 2005

New Interface for KCall

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by arendjr2 19 comments

Please make sure that "Transfer Call" and "Blind Transfer" get different icons. - Dec 08 2005

GTPY - ImageResizer

Graphic Apps by Gacha 18 comments

Where can I adjust the JPEG compression ratio? - Dec 08 2005

Kword: sheet of paper shadow [Mockup]

Office Apps by Fri13 6 comments

KDE normally uses a light source which is located in the top left corner (for example see the back- forward buttons of Konqueror). - Dec 05 2005

KFlickr MT

Graphic Apps by MarcusT 10 comments

Please, Please make the jpeg-compression level adjustable! - Nov 15 2005

Walchensee in the evening

Wallpaper Other by franzf 6 comments

Very nice picture! - Oct 30 2005

Kfile_colorprofileinfo

System Software by neke 2 comments

Thanks for this great kfile plugin! - Oct 16 2005

Removable Flash Disk "eject" option

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by pek 6 comments

How does it work? There are several different ways to mount an usb stick: * fstab * subfs ... - Oct 01 2005

Krita

Graphic Apps by boud 38 comments

Please update the screenshots, they look outdated. - Sep 21 2005

gwenview

Graphic Apps by bk12 105 comments

Gwenview and kuickshow show the same 5MP image:

_PID_USER___PR__NI__VIRT__RES_ SHR__%CPU_%MEM____TIME+__COMMAND
13990 mw --- 16 0 72284 53m 19m S 0.3 5.3 0:02.06 gwenview
12024 mw --- 16 0 47244 34m 19m S 0.0 3.4 0:02.72 konqueror
10071 root --- 15 0 287m 34m 3176 S 6.3 3.4 6:03.12 X
10876 mw --- 15 0 46348 32m 18m S 0.0 3.2 0:01.88 konqueror
13983 mw --- 16 0 43256 29m 12m S 0.0 2.9 0:00.67 kuickshow

=> gwenview: 72MByte virt., 53MByte resisdent
Kuickshow: 43MB virt., 29MB resisdent

=> Gewnview consumes 83% more resisdent memory than Kuickshow - Sep 13 2005

Amarok

Audioplayers by amarok 574 comments

Who has selected the new splash screen? It's awful!

Where can I download the old one?

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=27550 - Sep 06 2005

KSquirrel

Graphic Apps by CKulT 185 comments

Hi, can you describe the resize methods "tiles" and "hyper"? Do you plan to support bicubic and lanczos interpolations? - Sep 02 2005

Fedora Crystal Wallpaper

Wallpaper Other by sone 2 comments

Please, don't spam kde-look.org.
Better create a .tgz file or put all wallpapers under one entry. - Aug 28 2005

KDE-Image-Viewer

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by pregopresto 15 comments

Auto-zoom:

Settings -> Configure Kuickshow -> Modifications -> "Shrink image to screen size if larger"

Other key than Page-down/up:

Settings -> Configure Kuickshow -> Viewer Shortcuts

Btw.: In Gwenview you can use +left-mouse to zoom in, +right-mouse to zoom out and middle-mouse to zoom "fit to window". - Jun 21 2005

Amarok

Audioplayers by amarok 574 comments

Don't use the Suse-rpms (they disable musicbrainz support (at least with their Suse 9.2 packages) , use the RPMs from Guru (http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ ) - Jun 07 2005

gwenview

Graphic Apps by bk12 105 comments

Any news regarding Gwenview's speed issues?.

I don't want to have to use a media player to get a nice slideshow with decent image filtering... ;-) - Mar 01 2005

Amarok

Audioplayers by amarok 574 comments

Sorry belongs to Gwenview... - Mar 01 2005

Amarok

Audioplayers by amarok 574 comments

Any news regarding Gwenview's speed issues? (Image antialiasing ~3-4 times slower than mplayer).

I don't want to have to use a media player to get a nice slideshow with decent image filtering... ;-) - Mar 01 2005

Bluetooth Remote Control for Amarok

Audio Apps by asdex 11 comments

It seams that Bluemote 2.0 does not support those features. But I have seen a XMMS plugin which has a qute nice GUI: http://lyola.com/bte/ - Feb 13 2005

Bluetooth Remote Control for Amarok

Audio Apps by asdex 11 comments

You are right.
But at first the bluetooth mobile phone has to be paired with your bluetooth adapter.

For this step the owner of the bluetooth mobile phone has to know the PIN (/etc/bluetooth/pin).

Then the owner of the computer has to initiate a connection to a particular mobile phone.

So this schould not be be a security bug. You probably could completely remove the pin. - Feb 13 2005

Konqueror- Simple Browser

KDE Plasma Screenshots by HulkProtector1 6 comments

3.3.2 (suse)
3.4. beta 2 (suse) - Feb 12 2005

Konqueror- Simple Browser

KDE Plasma Screenshots by HulkProtector1 6 comments

If it would work here... - Feb 11 2005

Convert WMA to MP3-OGG

Dolphin Service Menus by zast 34 comments

Waht about some Lame options for better quality?

Lame's standard options result in very poor quality. - Feb 05 2005

Amarok

Audioplayers by amarok 574 comments

[...]
ADD: Improved statusbar, with animated error notification widget.
[...]

Hm. A "statusbar with animated error notification widget". Extreme-Bloat?

;-) - Jan 31 2005

gwenview

Graphic Apps by bk12 105 comments

New measurement:
Instead of a manual measurement I have taken the CPU-time of gwenview before the first and after the last image (with "top").

Gwenview 1.2.0pre1: Best quality scaling (-> ~600x450 pixel): 13.5 Seconds CPU time

The mplayer measurements include start-up overhead. (time mplayer [...])

So Mplayer is at least 3.2 times as fast as gwenview when doing bicubic scaling from 5MPixel to 600x450 pixel. - Jan 25 2005

gwenview

Graphic Apps by bk12 105 comments

Benchmark (kde 3.3.2, gwenview gwenview-1.1.8-5 (suse), AthlonXP, 1750MHz):
9 PNG images taken with my Canon G5 2614x1958 pixel (~5MP):

Gwenview: Best quality scaling (-> ~600x400 pixel): 19 Seconds (time taken manually)
normal quality: 15 seconds.

Mplayer: time mplayer "mf://CR*.png" -vf scale=600:-3 -sws 9 -vo x11
(takes all 9 PNGs, scales to 600 pixel width and uses Lanczos (sws 9) filter):
Lanczos: . . . . . 4.77 seconds
Bicubic:. . . . . . 4.65 seconds
Bilinear: . . . . . 4.49 seconds
Fast bilinear:. . 4.18 seconds

Although playing and scaling RGB data (vs. YUV data, which is used in videos) is not MPlayer's main competence, he is roughly 4 times faster.

And yes, MPlayers softwarescaler are fully adjustable: (from the man page:)
--------------------------------
[:] (also see -sws)
Set some scaling parameters depending on the type of scaler selected with
-sws.
-sws 2 (bicubic): B (blurring) and C (ringing)
0.00:0.60 default
0.00:0.75 VirtualDubs "precise bicubic"
0.00:0.50 Catmull-Rom spline
0.33:0.33 Mitchell-Netravali spline
1.00:0.00 cubic B-spline
-sws 7 (gaussian): sharpness (0 (soft) - 100 (sharp))
-sws 9 (lanczos): filter length (1-10)
------------------------

So, a speedup by a factor of four to five should be possible. And the best thing is: Sourcecode is available.

Btw., the quality differences between "fast", "normal" and "best quality" are not really visible. Maybe it would be better to provide just two resampling methods: "normal" Bicubic (Mitchell-Netravali) and a sharper one comparable to mplayer's "0.00:0.75" bicubic spline. - Jan 25 2005

POLARIS: Security enhancement for KDE

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by fprog26 8 comments

> 1) who the f is asdex

I'm asdex. Do you like my content? (e.g. http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=6956 )

> 2) why is he/she posting someone elses personal data

Which one's data?

> 3) why does the supposed link provide a 403 code?

Because you have clicked onto it? Next time you do this it could be that afterwards one process more is running on your computer.

> 4) and just who the f is hacked.org?

Who the f are you? - Jan 25 2005

gwenview

Graphic Apps by bk12 105 comments

> Who cares? Fast is fast, best is best.

Everybody who has used Gimp more than once in his live. Gimp has bilinear and bicubic resampling.

> Bicubic, lanczos, triangle, mitchell mean nothing to me and other 99% people.

That's why i did not wrote to *replace* "fast" "normal",.... Adding a hint what "normal" is supposed to be, should be enough.

> As long as fast is very fast, and best is very good, is it really
> important to know fast is some strange MMX assembly (probably pixel
> sampling, I don't know) from Imlib2 modified by Mosfet, and normal/best
> are triangle/mitchell from ImageMagick (speeded up a bit)?

There is absolutely no reason that a bicubic mitchell filter is slow. And yes, a bicubic mitchell filter is anything but the best method.

Btw. Mplayer is able to do bicubic mitchell much faster than gwenview is able to do "fast" resampling.

> And no, I haven't looked at MPlayer. I've had already enough fun with it,
> and I find the current state satisfactory. But your patches are of
> course welcome if you think it still needs improvements.

I'm not complaining, I only provided links to faster and better resampling routines because other find Gwenview extremly slow (and they are right). - Jan 25 2005

asdex

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Pebbles and Grass

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Bluetooth Remote Control for Amarok

Bibble

Konqueror-Pro