[Digikam-devel] [Bug 221245] Opening a picture with showfoto does not show any of the other pictures in the folder

[Jonny]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221245





--- Comment #16 from Jonny <gehkacken02 googlemail com>  2010-01-07 22:18:38 ---
if you put it like this then definetivly b,
that way you do not loose any of your current functionality as an editor and
you give people the option to use it as a viewer. there are quite enough "pure"
foto editors out there like the gimp.
but at the current stage all of the image viewers are crap. i cant work
effectively with any of them on linux and digiKam or showfoto have the
potential to fit into that spot nicely. folder navigation isnt even that
important and if you want to add it, i think it already exists in the digikam
sidebar (why did you actually split up the application into 2 part?).

what i would consider important for a viewer besides the ability to switch
between pictures would be to PRELOAD the next/previous pictures for fast
switching (somehow gThumb fucked that one up too) otherwise you have seconds of
idleness for the user between pictures.

so all in all:
- show folder
- preload next/previous
(- folder navigation)

BAM, awesome image viewer and its still an editor

otherwise its little more than an average editor
and on that area of applications i would prefer the gimp.

and why doesn't digikam allow to start WITH a picture as an argument, that
seems stupid for an image application. you could also just put those features
into digikam, it would lead to the same result, then again where is the
difference between them.

if you are very very very uncertain about this, you could alsa make the
automatically load folder optional with a little checkbox in the settings menu,
and users who dont want a viewer can let it be turned off.

at least i'd shut up about it then

so get drunk and start coding, i am sick and tired of writing this shit!

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