KIO-POV is a KDE IO-Slave that provides an interface to POV-Ray.

For those who do not know about KDE - KIO-Slaves are the mechanism KDE 
programs use to access files.  Using network KIO-Slaves you can for 
example directly edit a file on an ftp server just like you do with a 
local file.  Same for accessing a file in a zip archive.  KIO-POV does 
the same for POV-Ray and rendering of scenes, for example opening:

pov:/usr/local/share/povray-3.6/scenes/advanced/biscuit.pov?render

will render that scene and return the PNG image.  Other options allow 
you to view the render log, scene file information and information about 
the POV-Ray configuration.  MegaPOV is supported as well.  A caching 
mechanism is implemented so accessing the same render twice will not 
render the scene again.

To build KIO-POV you need the development files of KDE (any relatively 
new KDE version should work).  If you install KDE via your distribution 
package management this means you need the -devel packages, if you build 
KDE from source you don't need anything.

Source package and a screenshot of the scene info mode can be found on:

http://www.imagico.de/kiopov/

Feedback if it works and is useful would be great.

Christoph

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