Re: feature request

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, John Ellis wrote:

> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:54:26 -0500
> From: John Ellis <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Gqview-devel] feature request
>
> Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
>
> > "Page Up" and "Page Down" keys are already bound to "Previous Image" and
> > "Next Image" actions. It would be great to give them a little
> > intelligence as well. When either key is struck and gqview is either
> > showing the first or last image of a directory have gqview go to the
> > previous or next directory respectively.
>
> I am not claiming that this will be implemented any time soon, but I am
> curious about what you would expect in the following scenario:

I'm not saying if I think this idea would be wise or not.

I thought maybe you were going to suggest Page Up/Down would wrap around
to the start of the list, perhaps with some visual indication you had
wrapped around.

> Consider this folder tree:
>
> /
> +-parent_1
>           +-child_a
>           |       +-grandchild_x
>           |
>           +-child_b  <--(you are here)
>           |       +-grandchild_y
>           |
>           +-child_c
>
> If you are in child_b, to which folder does each direction take you?

The next directory would be child_c

You'd want to have backspace to go up to the next level of parent_1
you'd probably still need to click to get to the granchild folders


Sincerely

Alan Horkan

http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
http://alanhorkan.livejournal.com/



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