[PATCH] frame plasmoid: Switch photo when the user clicks on it

[Frederik Himpe]

On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:06:02 +0200, Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:

> Le Friday 04 July 2008 14:MM:49 Éric ALBER, vous avez écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wrote a litte patch for the frame plasmoid. The idea is that if you
>> click on the photo in the frame, it switches immediately to the next
>> photo in slideshow mode

> OK this needs a bit more thinking. There's a bug report (wish)
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165704 asking for a preview, pause
> and next action.
> 
> There are several ways to do it (in my opinion): - mouse clicks: like
> the patch suggests. I am not keen on actions that the user cannot be
> aware of like clicking. If SHIFT-click makes it move backward, how is
> the user aware of that?

Clicking should not change the picture. Actually, clicking should open it 
in the default picture viewer, just the same as when you click on a 
desktop icon. Personally I requested double clicking as this action 
first, but after some more thinking, the best would probably that it 
follows the System Settings - Mouse - "single/double click to open files 
and folders" configuration, which is set by default to single click.

> - right click menu as suggested in the wish report: we'll end up with a
> right click menu with too much options, people want a Open With... and
> whatsnot action action as well.

Well, I guess than you can argue against right click menus on normal 
desktop icons or in the file manager too... As those are generally well 
accepted, why no right click menu on a picture frame?

> - triangles like the Comic widget does - on hover, integrated arrows + a
> pause button in the handle (the handle being the thing where you get the
> 4 icons on the left) - other?

I think that's a great idea.

-- 
Frederik Himpe