[KimDaBa] Poll: are you ever reordering your images [Please answer]

[Tim Jacobs]

I too, would like to see the selection of thumbnails work as Eugen
described. Glad to see it's already done!

I also have never used the reorder-by-moving-thumbnails feature.

Tim

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 18:03 +0100, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
> On Monday 02 January 2006 17:58, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> | Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
> | > Hi.
> | > Everyone reading this, please answer ASAP.
> | >
> | > I'm currently reimplementing the thumbnail viewer, as the current one is
> | > too broken.
> | >
> | > One of the features I'm considering to throw away is the possibility
> | > reorder images in the thumbnail viewer (both by drag and drop and by
> | > cut'n'paste)
> | >
> | > Please answer these two simple questions:
> | > 1) Have you ever reordered your images in the thumbnail view?
> |
> | No.  However, if you have several images with the same date/time (for
> | example old photos without exif, where you know the day they were
> | taken), order them in alphabetical order (or the Unix's date/time of
> | last modification?!)
> |
> | What annoys me in the current version is the selection of all thumbnails
> | between two thumbnails A and B (I know it was already discussed on the
> | list).  What I actually do is:
> | - click somewhere not on a thumbnail, to deselect all thumbnails
> | - ctrl-click on the first thumbnail on the same line with A
> | - shift-click on the last thumbnail on the same line with B
> | - deselect images on the first and last line
> |
> | I would like to click (or alt-click for example, to let the simple click
> | open the viewer) on the first image, then shift-click the last image.
> |
> | Please write me if I am not understable.
> This is actually implemented exactly like you want it in the new thumbnail 
> view :-)
> 
> Cheers
> Jesper.