Re: Fw: new release

Frédéric wrote:
> Le vendredi 13 octobre 2006 12:22, John Ellis a écrit :
> 
[...]
> 
> If you plan to make new releases, could it be possible to add a few 
> features?
> 
> 1) The main feature I would like to see is the ability to create symbolic 
> links. It simply requires to add an entry in the drag'n'drop popup menu and 
> in the right-click popup menu. I don't know how existing symbolic links are 
> now managed, but this may need to add a tool to check if target of symbolic 
> links are still there, and add the user the ability to interactively 
> cleanup broken links. Thumbnails also need to be well thinked: are they 
> generated in the dir of the symbolic link, or is it also a link to the 
> thumbnail of the target image? Don't know what is the best.

Symbolic links have never been a high priority, and I plan to eventually 
allow their creation (the sort bar can already do links [Ctrl+S]). Beyond 
that, symbolic links will simply be treated as a regular file by the rest 
of GQview.

> 2) Is it possible to have a larger exif window when opened teh first time? I 
> alawys have to drag it to see all tabs... Could it be also possible to 
> automatically refresh the opened exif window with the most recent selected 
> picture?

The properties window is initially sized to show the information on the 
General tab. If you want updated Exif display of the active picture the 
EXIF bar may be more useful [Ctrl+E].

May I ask why you do not use the EXIF bar?

> 3) I'm using nfs partitions to store my pictures, and gqview freeze when the 
> network is not reachable. It may be a GTK issue, as I have the same problem 
> with Gimp. But there may be a solution to avoid this...

File listings are obtained by standard library calls [readdir() and 
stat()], GTK+ is not involved in this. Hangs will be hangs in those calls, 
I can not easily avoid it.

> 4) I would like to have more than 10 external editors, even if only the 
> firsts have shortcuts (Ctrl+<num> )...

Change the #define in gqview.h:

#define GQVIEW_EDITOR_SLOTS 10

and recompile, it should work as you request. Just remember the preferences 
window is not designed to start scrolling as the editor line count exceeds 
the window size, so the preferences window may become quite large vertically.

> 5) Is it possible to have windows port?

This has already been nicely addressed in this thread.

Greetings,
John

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