Re: Thumbnail Browsing

S T wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if there was a way to make the new version
> of gwenview load all the tumbnails on startup like the earlier version.
> I use it for searching large groups of pictures and when I say large
> I'm talking groups of over a thousand pictures per directory. Waiting
> for it to load images every page makes it fairly useless for quick
> searching.

Sorry, there is no such option because it would result in huge amount of
memory consumption when browsing large folders like the one you describe.

> I'd also like to know is there any way to get browse and
> view on the same page; while the bar is okay, it realy isn't very
> useful for searching these large groups of pictures.

The bar is expected to become a bit more powerful. It is already
possible now to put it on the right side. If time permit, support for
multiple rows/columns will be added.

> Also, a
> feature I would like to see return is picture number. If I have to
> leave off a search to do something else I would like to be able to go
> back to where I was, but that's much harder now without numbering.

I agree, will see what do to about this. Meanwhile you can abuse Nepomuk
to do this: create a last-seen tag and assign it to the last image you
visited.

Aurélien

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