[KimDaBa] New snapshot with improved thumbnail viewer

[Robert L Krawitz]

   From: "Jesper K. Pedersen" <blackie at blackie.dk>
   Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:49:11 -0500
   Cc: kimdaba at kdab.net

   | > I guess the most important reason is that if I want to e. g. copy an
   | > image into another program or another directory I need to know its
   | > name to find the file.  Popping a viewer takes time, particularly for
   | > a large image, and it hides all of the other thumbnails.  It's a lot
   | > faster for me to look at thumbnails and say "I want img_8242.jpg,
   | > img_8247.jpg, and img_8250.jpg".
   |
   | Removing the filenames from either the thumbnail view, or the
   | single-image viewer (as it was in the bad old days), greatly reduces the
   | usefulness of Kimdaba for me.

   well you still have it in the status bar just hover the mouse over
   the image.

   Please explain why this isn't good enough.

Two reasons are that you can only see one filename at a time by
hovering, and you have to look away from the thumbnail to see the
filename.

Hovering as a way to display the EXIF data would be fine, but the
filename is the basic identifier for the image.  Think in terms of an
icon view anywhere else (desktop icons, icon views in a file browser,
etc.) -- the name is always displayed.