I pop over to http://www.mosfet.org from time to time to check out development of PixiePlus, Daniel Duley's KDE image displaying, organising and editing tool. Maybe people aren't aware of its existence or usefulness.

Mosfet's lack of understanding of how people work continues to astound. This is the guy who screwed up the KDE release plan by pulling his code just before a major KDE release; This is the guy who had his KDE CVS account pulled because he was abusing it; This is the guy who changed his licenses to QPL to stop KDE using his code; This is the guy who threw his toys out of the pram and said he wasn't going to work on Linux stuff any more; This is the guy who wiped his web site and left a terse note saying he was dumping his KDE development; and now this is the guy who's put out because his users have all buggered off. Amazing. Quite amazing...

There are SuSE-specific rpms to download at

http://www.mosfet.org/pixie/download.html

PixiePlus only works with KDE3.0 (well, I assume so - the website doesn't make it at all clear if KDE2.2 is still supported), which many people haven't got to yet. KDE3.0 is less stable than KDE2.2, and is binary incompatible with most existing KDE programs. There are no killer features over 2.2 either, so I suspect many people are waiting for the 3.1 release, and will only go to that when they upgrade their Linux distro. I also notice there's no SuSE8.0 rpm of PixiePlus either, which is ironic since that's the only one which ships with KDE3.0. -- 12:24pm up 4 days, 4:39, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 0.11, 0.06

On Friday 17 May 2002 07:03, Fergus Wilde wrote:

Hi All,

I pop over to http://www.mosfet.org from time to time to check out development of PixiePlus, Daniel Duley's KDE image displaying, organising and editing tool. Maybe people aren't aware of its existence or usefulness.

I find this completely invaluable for working with directories full of images for the web, etc. It has excellent features such as generating and loading its thumbnails *really* fast, clicking on a thumbnail gives a larger preview, and / or can open it at full size or 'fit the screen' size. It's a really nice piece of work and a small download.

It seems Mosfet is getting fed up with the small number of downloads, and from my own greedy self-interest in wanting to see this program develop I'd like to suggest anyone with images to organise or view in an intuitive, fast and handy program should beetle over to mosfet.org and download it. There are SuSE-specific rpms to download at

http://www.mosfet.org/pixie/download.html

The man has made a big effort with this prog, so if you're using it and liking it why not drop him a mail and encourage his Linux development enthusiasm, as he's evidently getting a bit jaded.

Best to all Fergus

Fergus, I too find this program invaluable! I use it all the time for my graphics and pictures. I hope others begin to find it's usefulness as well, as it should be a part of any graphic users batch of programs. I didn't see a SuSE 8.0 version on his site though and the one included in the SuSE ftp site, KDE applications, is broken. It has no editor included in the build. I haven't checked lately to see if a new one has been uploaded, but last one I got about a week ago would not work to edit. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Magic Page Products -- Amiga-SuSE-PC Sales & Service URL: http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb