Cannot execute kuickshow

Kuickshow has had to be removed because it used the obsolete imlib.
3.5.2-0ubuntu5 removes the package completely.
Replacements include gwenview, digikam, kimdaba

ok, i understand now.

Thanks for your support :)

Jonathan,

what's wrong with Imlib? Is it obsolete just because there is an Imlib2? Imlib2 has a very different scope and is not a replacement for Imlib1, despite of its naming.

Imlib1 works perfectly, as does kuickshow. No other image viewer can compete with kuickshow's speed and there are quite a number of happy kuickshow users out there.

Please consider re-adding Imlib1 and kuickshow.

Seriously guys. Every time I reinstall Ubuntu I do some hacking to make kuickshow work, and I haven't seen any conflicts yet, nor any reason why it shouldn't be included in the standard distribution.

I like kuickshow much more than the replacements suggested. Please add it back.

Kuickshow is part of kdegraphics and needs imlib. kdegraphics is in main but imlib is not in main because imlib2 is in main and we don't allow duplicate code in main where possible. If someone wants to separate kuickshow from kdegraphics (svn2dist is your friend) and package that and promise to keep it maintained I'd be happy to have it back in the archives in universe.

Thanks for the info. Imlib2 does not really duplicate functionality of Imlib1, though. The latter is mostly about loading, rendering and transforming images while the former is mostly about animations.

I did port KuickShow to Imlib2 once. I even contributed to Imlib2 to make that possible at all. And I threw that port away, because
- Imlib2 is slower than Imlib1
- Imlib2 provides a different functionality (e.g. animations instead of image transformations like rotating, brightness, gamma adjustments)

So Imlib1 and Imlib2 are really complementary instead of duplication.