Bad Gwenview

[Duncan]

Felix Miata posted on Sun, 03 Aug 2014 07:41:09 -0400 as excerpted:

> On 2014-08-03 05:40 (GMT-0400) Duncan composed:
> 
>> If you can't get gwenview behaving as you like,
>> try gimv and see if it works better for you.
> 
> The trackballs I own have no middle button, while keeping track of
> meanings of middle according to context is something I've never been
> able to manage, not to mention the difficulty of striking two buttons
> simultaneously.

Generally, striking one and holding it down, then the other, within a 
certain (IIRC configurable) period, then let them up within a reasonably 
close approximation to simultaneously, is enough.  They don't have to be 
clicked /exactly/ at the same time.

I've actually been a bit surprised at how well it works, but it does.

> I have many installations, making the complicated options (multiple
> displays,
> mapping) much too much trouble to contemplate.

Yes, that wouldn't work for everyone.  It's just what works for me.  And 
on my netbook, I generally want the zoom-to-fit, so that too works just 
fine for me.

> Whatever version is whatever version, as most are whatever Cauldron,
> Factory or Rawhide offer. 4.13.80 just happened to be the one I wanted
> to view some images with.
> 
> I've been able to find no decent keyboards made since the early '90s.
> All I have were made before Win keys existed. "Decent" is defined to
> mean function keys where they belong, where one hand's fingers can hit
> any combination of Fn/Shift/Alt/Ctrl easily.

"Decent" means different things to different people.  Here, it's not 
"decent" unless it's an ergonomically split "wave" keyboard.  But FWIW I 
did try an MS branded one (wireless) at some point and it was 
/horrible/.  I've stuck with Logitech since.

Anyway, there's other mappings possible.  I use a bit different mappings 
on my netbook, for instance, as some of its keys are already dual-key 
mapping (Fn-Home, for example).

But definitely a few "extra" keys, including an extra modifier generally 
not used by built-in mappings for individual apps, which is what the win/
super/meta key ends up being, certainly help.  That allows that modifier 
key to be mapped to global "window" functions as there's little danger of 
a global shortcut conflicting with something app-specific, that way.

> Looks like it has worked in v4 previously:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291759
> 
> While gimv might be better than "Gwenview", KDE3's Gwenview clearly is,
> because when 100% is selected, that's the way it stays until another
> selection is made. Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks selecting
> 100% ought to be sticky:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334530

I agree, which is one reason I had to switch to gimv for awhile.  It just 
so happens that in my case, the window can be made large enough that in 
most cases 100% is smaller than the window, such that gwenview's checkbox 
for that option works and I can actually have 100% by default.  Were it 
to work the other way and the checkbox applied only to larger-than-window 
images, I'd have to find another alternative, just as I did when gwenview 
lost sticky 100% on small images until they restored it with that checkbox 
option.

And as I said, I already apply zoom-step patches to gwenview.  If that 
checkbox option disappeared again and zoom-to-fit became the hard-coded 
default for small images, I might end up trying to diff and patch that as 
well.  (While I don't claim to be a coder, it's nice to have at least 
/limited/ ability to read code and to apply patches.  It just struck me 
how much I simply assume that I have sources available and /can/ do that, 
these days.  Quite a difference from back before the turn of the century 
when I used proprietary servantware, for sure!)

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

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