Kim (Kde Image Menu)

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Description:

* FEATURES:
This is an image Kde servicemenu which allows to:
- compress images,
- resize images,
- convert images,
- rotate images,
- rename images,
- resize and send by mail images,
- and more other actions !
This servicemenu use ImageMagick and Mpegtools.
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* PUBLICATIONS:
- Linux magzines published in its issue of May 2005 an article devoted to Kde Image Menu (Kim) ! (See www.linux-magazine.com)
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* NEWS:
- Kim is now available for KDE 4.x!
Last changelog:

11 years ago

Release Kim4-0.9.5 (for kde >= 4.x):
- first available version for KDE 4.x!
Release kim-0.9.5 (for kde >= 3.3):
- auto-rotate images from EXIF informations.
Release kim-0.9.4 (for kde >= 3.3):
- create a html gallery works correctly (with portrait or landscape images).
- send by mail works correctly now!
Release kim-0.9.2 (for kde >= 3.3):
- create a "pí¨le-mí¨le" with your pictures (see http://bouveyron.free.fr/kim/images/pele-mele.jpg for a demo),
- some bugs fixed ...
Release kim-0.9.1 (for kde >= 3.3):
- sort images by date (rename the images using EXIF informations),
- some bugs fixed ...
Release kim-0.9.0 (for kde >= 3.3):
- export in a gif animation,
- export in a flash slideshow for all image format now !(demo: http://bouveyron.free.fr/kim/slideshow),
- export in a html galery(demo: http://bouveyron.free.fr/kim/galery),
- and some improvements ...
Release kim-0.8.4 (for kde >= 3.3):
- Fix some bugs ...
Release kim-0.8.3 (for kde >= 3.3):
- Fix security issues by using temporary files,
- Fix UTF-8 encoding issues in desktop files,
- Fix copyrights and other licensing stuff.

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gassauer

13 years ago

IMHO autorotate should not modify modification date
* for files without need for auto-rotation in any case.
* for other files optionally

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allistar

13 years ago

Hi there,
If executing the action from Konqueror with the url:

system:/home/allistar/image.jpg

KIM doesn't work as the file doesn't pass the -f bash test. If the url is instead:

/home/allistar/image.jpg

(without the "system:" at the front) then it works as expected. What need to happen I think is that the KIM scripts need to strip off the "system:" from the start of file names.

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yildirim

13 years ago

just found a misspell..

When creating a gallery html with kim, I see this at the end of the html page:

Galery created with Kde Image Menu

Obviously should be "Gallery"

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yildirim

13 years ago

Thank you for your great idea.. It is really helpful. Just one feature you could add would be great. When I converted from a 600kb png to jpeg, I did not gain any space.. the jpeg file was 550kb..
Is it possible to add to KIM so that it will convert t a lossy jpeg so that the image would be around 100kb?

Also adding jpeg2000 would be cool :D.
thanks

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jayenell

13 years ago

'Send by mail' does not work at all. The kmail icon is flashing for 1 sec. and nothing happens.

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CaCO3

13 years ago

I had to replace every $HOST to $HOSTNAME

after that, I can make a photo montage, but only in my console with the command
./kim_pelemele image1.jpg image2.jpg

Why doesnt it work by contexmenu?

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Spinnaker

13 years ago

Désolé pour le français...
Je viens de passer sous Mandriva 2008 powerpack ( en reformattant /)et j'ai oublié de sauvegarder ce fameux fichier kim_resizeandsend qui m'a donné tant de mal l'an dernier avec Mandriva 2007 alors qu'il marchait très bien sous la 2006; grâce à ce post, j'ai pu le reconstituer. Il serait temps que Mandriva l'intègre dans ses distributions futures. C'est un outil indispensable.
Pour gagner du temps, voici une version qui marche ( Trois modifications : un / enlevé devant tmp à la deuxième ligne; un HOSTNAME à la place d'un HOST et un sleep 60 rajouté en bas). Peut-être qu'un connaisseur pourrait nous expliquer le pourquoi du comment!
test -n "$KDEHOME" || KDEHOME="`kde-config --localprefix`"; export KDEHOME
TMPDIR=`mktemp -d "$KDEHOME"tmp-"$HOSTNAME"/kim.XXXXXXXX` || exit 1

ATTACHMENTS="";

choice=`kdialog --radiolist "Kim - Send by mail:" 1 "Full size" off 2 "800x600 px" on 3 "600x450 px" off 4 "300x225 px" off`;

let "nbfiles = $#"
dcopRef=`kdialog --progressbar "Kim - Initialising ..." $nbfiles`
dcop $dcopRef showCancelButton true

compteur=0

for i in "[email protected]";do
if [ -f "$i" ];then
#test if cancel button has been pushed
if test "true" = `dcop $dcopRef wasCancelled`;then
dcop "$dcopRef" close
exit 1
fi
ATTACHMENTS="$i"
let "compteur +=1"
dcop "$dcopRef" setLabel "Kim - Resizing and compressing file: `basename "$ATTACHMENTS"`"
dcop "$dcopRef" setProgress $compteur
case "$choice" in
1) cp $i $TMPDIR;;
2) convert -resize 800x800 "$ATTACHMENTS" "$TMPDIR"/`basename "$ATTACHMENTS"`;;
3) convert -resize 600x600 "$ATTACHMENTS" "$TMPDIR"/`basename "$ATTACHMENTS"`;;
4) convert -resize 300x300 "$ATTACHMENTS" "$TMPDIR"/`basename "$ATTACHMENTS"`;;
*)exit 1;;
esac
fi;
done
sleep 60
kmail --attach "$TMPDIR"/*;
dcop "$dcopRef" close;
kdialog --msgbox "Kim - Send by mail: you can write your message!"
rm -rf "$TMPDIR"

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gollum

13 years ago

Hy

Nice utility.
I am using it to do conversion to svg.
I go this way :
Place the files I want to convert in a directory
select all
rightclick and use KIM to convert to pgm
then, in a konsole, i tape :
potrace -s *.pgm

May be nice to have this all done in a onshot only :)

Thanks for kim, looking forward to having potrace integration in it ( well, if you don't wand to depend on it, just use a popup saying that potrace needs to be instaled, and perhaps that it works only whith black and white )

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alexnihilo

13 years ago

this prog. is really indispensable, it should be automatically include in KDE !

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studioz

14 years ago

How about include this menu in the pack? http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=51247

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anderslund

14 years ago

the script to create a photo montage has #!/bin/sh in the shebang line, but it's a tsch script.

That is probably a bad expectation! most users likely have bash as the default shell.

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anderslund

14 years ago

or, at least it does not work with bash.

After correcting $HOST to $HOSTNAME, i now get an error from montage about '--' not being a valid geometry.

It comes from "-$OVER-$OVER", and i have no idea why $OVER is wrong.

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sunman

14 years ago

This is one of the most useful service menus I've ever put on my system. In fact, having recently upgraded to slack 11 I went to grab the latest version and couldn't find it. I was horrified that something so nifty had seemingly disappeared...until I realized I was looking in the wrong section (service menus instead of graphic tools). Thanks for the great work :)

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dovidhalevi

14 years ago

I have installed past versions successfully.

This one never gets to the dialog. It is apparently looking for some stuff at root location rather than on $KDEDIR ??

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masonmouse

14 years ago

I had the same problem. The script relies on an executable called kde-config which doesn't appear to be on my system so I just edited that line in install.sh to manually set the path and it worked fine then.

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Spinnaker

14 years ago

I have the same problem; all the options of kim are good except " send by mail" who never open "kdialog" windows.
I am on Mandriva powerpack 2007 and before, on Mandriva 2006 i had no problem.
Please HELP.....

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cbouveyron

14 years ago

Yes, the installation script has changed! Now, you have to type ./install.sh as root!

Regards,

Charles

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redfish

14 years ago

Same messages for me:
kim # ./install.sh
mv: cannot stat `imageconverter.desktop': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `jpegorient.desktop': No such file or directory
Installation completed. Good bye.

Works fine but it's a bit irritating though ;)
Maybe a test if the files exist befor the 2 mv's would be nice.

Definitely a very nice collection!

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dovidhalevi

14 years ago

This is what I did. Tried it sudo and tried it from a su login.

Here is the su results:
kim# ./install.sh
mkdir: cannot create directory `/opt/kde3.5/share/apps/kim': File exists
mkdir: cannot create directory `/opt/kde3.5/share/apps/kim/slideshow/': File exists
mkdir: cannot create directory `/opt/kde3.5/share/apps/kim/galery': File exists
mv: cannot stat `imageconverter.desktop': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `jpegorient.desktop':
No such file or directory
Installation completed. Good bye.

(This should say installation NOT completed, uninstall first.)

Taking a hint from this, I did ./uninstall.sh first.

Then repeated ./install.sh. Did not get the error lines but did not get a dialog box either.

Since the KIM items do work, I assume the dialog is no longer available and each option has its own shell. OK.

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BorgQueen

14 years ago

As always.
Thanks.

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alexnihilo

14 years ago

Really usefull, indeed it should be included in KDE (as soon as its little bugs are solved...) ;)

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linux3114a

14 years ago

I create a slideshow with mixed landscape and portrait images. each portrait image is treated as landscape during the run.( deformed )

When I check the size of portrait pictures in the image subdirectory are correct.( not deformed ).

I don't understand Why ?

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linux3114a

14 years ago

The problem persits with the version 0.9.3 ?????

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cbouveyron

14 years ago

Hello,

The problem is related to the fact that your pictures are in a directory which the name contains a space. I will try to fix this.

Charles

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linux3114a

14 years ago

My directory and my files names are not space in it.
dir : auvergne2006-bis
file : s5000070.jpg.jpg


?????

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11 years ago

Release Kim4-0.9.5 (for kde >= 4.x):
- first available version for KDE 4.x!
Release kim-0.9.5 (for kde >= 3.3):
- auto-rotate images from EXIF informations.
Release kim-0.9.4 (for kde >= 3.3):
- create a html gallery works correctly (with portrait or landscape images).
- send by mail works correctly now!
Release kim-0.9.2 (for kde >= 3.3):
- create a "pí¨le-mí¨le" with your pictures (see http://bouveyron.free.fr/kim/images/pele-mele.jpg for a demo),
- some bugs fixed ...
Release kim-0.9.1 (for kde >= 3.3):
- sort images by date (rename the images using EXIF informations),
- some bugs fixed ...
Release kim-0.9.0 (for kde >= 3.3):
- export in a gif animation,
- export in a flash slideshow for all image format now !(demo: http://bouveyron.free.fr/kim/slideshow),
- export in a html galery(demo: http://bouveyron.free.fr/kim/galery),
- and some improvements ...
Release kim-0.8.4 (for kde >= 3.3):
- Fix some bugs ...
Release kim-0.8.3 (for kde >= 3.3):
- Fix security issues by using temporary files,
- Fix UTF-8 encoding issues in desktop files,
- Fix copyrights and other licensing stuff.

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