[Digikam-devel] browsing pictures with keyboard

[Frank Siegert]

Hi Gilles,

Caulier Gilles wrote:
> Le mardi 6 février 2007 23:40, Frank Siegert a écrit :
>> - If you hit "Enter" to preview a picture, it would be very handy if you
>> could also go back to the album view with "Enter". Right now that
>> needs "Escape", which requires your second hand.
> 
> You go to Preveiw mode using F3 key. You can go out using :
> 
> - F3 again
> - ESC

I assume, that many users, like me, enter the preview mode either by hitting
<Enter> on a selected picture, or by mouse clicking on it. Thus it is not
really discoverable to go back with <F3>; and <Escape> is also out of reach
if navigating with arrow keys, using one hand.
Since <Enter> and <Click on picture> is not yet taken in the preview mode,
why not assign it to "Go back to album"? Seems very intuitive to me. What
do others think?

And what about the other two points, let me repeat them:

> - Selecting multiple pictures with "Ctrl + (move around) + Space" (like
> you would do in Konqueror with files).
> Ctrl will let you move around, while keeping one picture selected, but
> it's not possible to select another picture. Only if you want multiple
> *neighbouring* pictures, it is possible to use "Shift + Arrowkeys" though.
> 
> - Popping up the right click menu with that popup menu key between the
> right "Alt" and "Ctrl", as it works in many KDE programs.

Are these fixable, or does it involve too much work?

-- 
Thanks,
Frank