[Digikam-users] 4.10 and 4.12 thumbnail filmstrip behavior

[Maik Qualmann]

Hi Elle,

this feature (scroll current item in the thumbbar to center) was desired by 
some users. We will make this feature in the next relase of digiKam (4.14.0) 
in the settings configurable.

Maik

Am Sonntag, 13. September 2015, 06:43:40 schrieb 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
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