External tools
You can easily extend &kappname; by defining external tools. These tools
are accessible from the contextual popup menu which appears when
right-clicking on a thumbnail or in the image view. Look in the
External Tools entry.
&kappname; comes with a few predefined external tools, but it's very
easy to add more through the Configure External Tools dialog. You can open
it from SettingsConfigure
External Tools....
Here is how it looks:
External tools dialog
In this example, I defined an external tool which will call Exiftran to
regenerate the EXIF tags for JPEG images. Here is a more detailed description
of its definition:
The Name: field contains the description of your
tool, has it will appear in the menu.
The Command: field contains the command which
will be run when this tool is invoked.
Click on the little question mark on the right of the field to get a list
of the keywords you can use in this field. These keywords will get
expanded to the image files.
The button on the right lets you associate an icon with your tool.
The File Associations group indicates what type of
files this tool can work with. Your tool will only appear in the
External Tools menu if the
selected files are of the correct type. In my example, this tool is only
valid with JPEG images, so I choose Custom:, then
image/jpeg and image/pjpeg.
You can find other external tool examples from
&kappname; web site.