[KPhotoAlbum] Improved image viewer?

[Jason Kivlighn]

>
>
> > If I select multiple images to view, I can only go forward/back, rather
> than
> > arbitrarily viewing one of the selected images.  On my system, it is
> > painfully slow to keep hitting next to skip to a particular photo.
> >
> > Something as simple as this would be perfect:
> > http://www.digikam.org/?q=system/files&file=images/im012.preview.png
>
> Good idea. But make sure to make it configurable.


What options would you expect?

> where selected images' thumbnails are displayed along the bottom (or
> > left/right).  The less-intrusive "fix" is to extend the viewer to work
> like
> > the showFoto screenshot when multiple images are selected for viewing.
> > Another route would be to turn the main window view into the describe
> > interface, but something tells me there'll be plenty of objections to
> that
> > ;-)
>
> Guess you're right. I definitely want a view like the current
> browser-view as an overview of all my images. However, quick navigation
> to a specific image in a range of selected images would be nice.
>
> One thing i'm still missing in KPA is navigation in the image-viewer if
> only one image was selected. There were suggestions before, to make the
> viewer assume a selection of all images from the current browser-view if
> none/only one was atually selected. Unfortunately noone implemented this
> till now.


Sounds like a really good idea to me too.  What do you mean that no one
implemented this until now?

Cheers,
Jason Kivlighn
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