[Digikam-devel] browsing pictures with keyboard

[F.J.Cruz]

El Domingo, 11 de Febrero de 2007, Marcel Wiesweg escribió:
> 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
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I agree with you Marcel, one click (enter key) to get preview and one click 
(enter key) to return to album view.

Paco Cruz.