Re: browsing through picture directories by keyboard with Gwenview

Joe Wells <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.gwenview
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Aurelien Gateau <[email protected]> writes:

> 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? ...
>
> 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.

Thanks very much for the explanation!

For me, this behavior makes an important aspect of using Gwenview
quite tedious.  Is there any chance this behavior can be altered in
the future?  I would be happy with a configuration option to turn off
the feature of automatically jumping to the first image in any folder.
Actually, I don't mind if it loads the first image in the folder as
long as it doesn't move the cursor there.

-- 
Thanks.

Joe

P.S.  I very much admire what has been done with Gwenview.  In
particular the ability to arbitrarily dock, undock, stack, and
rearrange the panes is truly marvelous.

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