Picture Show

We have a kind of "hidden" feature in Kerika for a while -- a function that's existed for many months, but one that we have never talked about before...

As you already know, you can put any kind of content on an Idea Page -- a memo, presentation, spreadsheet, bookmark, whatever.

Here's the hidden function: if you put a picture on an Idea Page (e.g. a JPEG or GIF file), you can actually view the picture on the page itself by pressing the F6 function key.

If you press the F6 function key, this will toggle the view of the Idea Page so your picture is shown in its exact size, and in its original position. If you press F6 again, the view goes back to the "normal" display where the picture is shown simply as an icon, just like all the other files that you have on the Idea Page.

So, why have we kept quiet about this all along? Well, it's kind of a cool feature, but not quite perfect by any means so we weren't sure whether it was worth publicizing just yet.

One problem you might encounter is if the picture is adjacent to a bunch of other stuff -- other files, bookmarks or ideas. In that case, using the F6 key could result in your picture obscuring other items that are adjacent to it. We never quite figured out what would be a good solution to this scenario, so we never publicized the existence of this feature.

I would welcome your thoughts on this: what do you think should happen when a picture clobbers other items on the page?