KDE braindamage

KDE: It's bad enough that documentation sucks and is out of date
(looking for help in the Help menu is just asking for trouble, because
you'll find that most of the documentation is for KDE 2.x) -- what
really sucks is when later versions don't have features the old had.

In particular: KView, the image viewer. You could invoke earlier
versions (2.x) this way:

   kview *.jpg

And then you could go to the "Image" menu and select "Slideshow" etc.
Now, in 3.0 (KDE 3.1, RedHat 9), that doesn't work. It doesn't seem to
matter how many files are mentioned on the command-line: only the
first one will be displayed. (Because now KView takes a URL as
parameter, not a list of files.)

Not just that: although there's an "Image List..." entry under the
"Go" menu (Go? Who names these menus?) and also a tantalising "Start
Slidehow" entry... but of course since it only loaded one image the
slideshow is rather uninteresting. The "Image List..." thing pops up a
dialog, which offers you a promising option called "Load List..."  --
but no information whatsoever anywhere about what this "List" is and
how one creates one so it can be loaded. If you pick "Save List..." 
and look at the file created, it's a sequence of URLs. So you try
something like

    for f in *.jpg; do
        echo "file://${PWD}/$f" >> list
    done

It works! (I think you have to go to the configuration dialog and
enable the "slideshow plugin first.)

But should a "regular" desktop user (not a shell user used to loops
etc.) be expected to do all this?

-s

PS: Of course I *could* write new KView documentation and send it to
them instead of complaining...