[Digikam-users] 4.10 and 4.12 thumbnail filmstrip behavior

[Elle Stone]

Hi all,

Recently I upgraded to digiKam 4.12, and after a few days downgraded to 
4.10 because 4.12 introduced a feature that makes it cumbersome to 
review images.

When a thumbnail is clicked, the selected image takes up most of the 
center space between the panels, and a "filmstrip" appears, allowing to 
select another image to fill the center space. If it's relevant, I put 
the filmstrip vertically between the center image and the right panel.

In 4.10, when you click on a thumbnail, the selected thumbnail in the 
filmstrip keeps its relative position in the window. So if the selected 
thumbnail is at the bottom of the filmstrip, that image appears in the 
larger space, and the selected thumbnail stays at the bottom of the 
filmstrip. And likewise if the selected thumbnail is at the top or 
middle of the filmstrip.

In 4.12, clicking on a thumbnail in the filmstrip recenters that 
thumbnail in the middle of the filmstrip.

The 4.12 "automatic filmstrip recentering" makes it difficult to 
alternately select one of, say, two or three or four images that are 
nearby in the filmstrip, for reviewing in the center space, because the 
place to click to get back to a previously view image changes with every 
click.

Is there a setting in 4.12 that makes the 4.12 filmstrip behavior match 
4.10? So that in 4.12 clicking on a thumbnail in the filmstrip doesn't 
recenter that thumbnail in the middle of the filmstrip?

Best regards,
Elle