[Digikam-devel] browsing pictures with keyboard

[Marcel Wiesweg]

Am Sonntag 11 Februar 2007 14:26 schrieb 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?

I would support the idea to go back on mouse click, and I don't mind to do it 
on <Enter> as well.
Currently when navigating with the mouse only, I have to go a long way and 
find the tiny toolbar icon. But I dont know if user generally expect to go 
back to icon view on a mouse click.

>
> 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?

I have implemented this on my machine, but not yet commited because of ongoing 
work packaging beta1.
Key_Space is also used as an accelerator key for "next picture", and this 
seems to filter out Shift+Space as well. I am currently not sure if the 
global shortcut is good or not

Marcel