Plasma Active Imageviewer Improvements

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Wednesday 20 February 2013 23:36:02 Ruediger Gad wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I added a branch (rcg/imageviewer) to
> http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=plasma-mobile.git
> 
> The changes include improvements for the built-in imageviewer.
> 
> The most important change improves the switching between images by
> sliding left to right.
> The result should be that images are pre-loaded in the background and
> that the load times when switching to the next image is essentially zero.
> 
> You can test that as follows:
> Open the "Files" aplication.
> Select "Images" and click on one image.
> Change back and forth between the images using the swipe left and right
> gestures.
> The images should be there instantly without any load times.
> Only when switching very rapidly to subsequent images "load-artefacts"
> should occur.
> Note that it may take two or three switches until the pre-load fully works.
> 
> Another change is for scaling images to screensize and loading the
> full-scale version on-demand when zooming.
> This currently conflicts with the switching functionality.
> However, after directly opening a high-resolution image it should be
> possible to zoom in.
> You will see that the image is reloaded (this time with the full
> resolution) and you can fully zoom in then.
> 
> The request is to move this change to integration:
> http://community.kde.org/Plasma/IntegrationBranches/plasma-mobile#Workflow

These sound like useful improvements!
Could you open a review request on reviewboard.kde.org for the plasma group?
Thanks,
Thomas