Comments on new keybindings in 1.3.7

"Magnus Pym" <[email protected]> Sat, 10 Jan 2004 07:24:42 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gqview.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I have been using qqview for quite some time now and it is by far
my favorite image viewer. However, I must confess that I am
rather dissatisfied about some of the changes in keybindings
in 1.3.7.

In 1.3.7, the keyboard-shortcuts for selecting the next and previous 
images are different depending on the mode. For example,

1) When the image has focus, PgUp and PgDown are used for next and previous.

2) When the file menu has focus, UpArrow and DownArrow are used for the
next and previous options. Using PgUp or PgDown in this mode results in
the first and last image in the list being selected. 

3) If you choose to use one of the "copy" buttons in the sort manager to
move the current image anywhere, the next image is selected. But
both the image and the file menu lose focus and so no option to select
the next image works.

4) Say you skip over to fullscreen mode and use PgDown for a few images,
and skip back to the file menu. If you use DownArrow now, the image that
is selected is not the next image, but the successor to the image that
you were viewing before skipping over to fullscreen mode!

These changes seem to have been conscious decisions, but they cause
quite a lot of inconvenience.  The second and fourth ones are special headaches,
since while browsing directories, I often pop over to the fullscreen mode and
then back again, only to find that by using the DownArrow, i completely lose
my position in the list.

It would be nice to be able to override these options in preferences to select
the old defaults. Pretty please?


Thank you,

Magnus.

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