Re: browsing through picture directories by keyboardwith Gwenview

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:39:38 +0000, Joe Wells <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Gwenview gurus,
> 
> Browsing through picture directories by keyboard with Gwenview can be
> quite tedious.  Imagine you have a directory with 100 subdirectories
> and 1 picture.  Imagine you are looking in subdirectory #25 and you
> want to go up, move forward to subdirectory #27, and then descend
> again.  Unfortunately, when you use the keyboard commands to go up,
> Gwenview helpfully moves you to the one picture in the main directory,
> and you have to use probably 25 to 30 keystrokes to move the cursor
> back to subdirectory #27.
> 
> The behavior of the classic non-free program XV is how I think this
> should be done.  When you go up in XV's file browser from subdirectory
> #25, it leave the cursor on subdirectory #25 in the main directory, so
> you can just press right arrow twice to get to subdirectory #27 and
> press enter to descend.
> 
> Is there any way I can configure Gwenview to do the right thing?  I
> looked through all of the possible configurations and nothing seemed
> to be what I was looking for.
> 
> Thanks for your time in considering this issue.

Hello,

The behavior you're looking for exists in Gwenview, as long as the parent 
folder does not itself contains images :-(. Gwenview automatically loads 
the first image it will find in the folder, and this can't be disabled.

Aurélien



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