GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 562135
Random image order
Last modified: 2009-05-29 18:31:43 UTC
Hi there. I think it would be nice to have an option to display images in a random manner (especially for slideshows). I already took some time to write a patch against version 2.24.1 to achieve this. Well, it's horrible hack. Even makes the application crash sometimes. But maybe you can use it for a start. Regards.
Created attachment 123323 [details] [review] Patch to order images in a random manner.
Would you be willing to make this a plugin for eog? I don't think we would add this kind of features to the core, but it could be a nice plugin addition. Also, I think it would be most useful only for the slideshow mode.
Yes I agree, it only makes sense in slideshow mode. Well, I see if I get around to write a useable plugin by time.
Ok, here we go. I'll attach a first version of my plugin within some moments. Currently there are two drawbacks: - The slideshow always starts with the currently viewed image or the first image if the slideshow was started from commandline, that is not a random image. After that images are displayed in a random manner. - When the 'loop sequence' box is checked the random image sequence stays the same for every repetition.
Created attachment 124954 [details] Python plugin to order images randomly in slideshow mode
Created attachment 124955 [details] EOG plugin specification
Nice. Thanks. Just committed it to the eog-plugins repository (from which we hopefully manage to get a release out in the near future). I also added a "GPLv2 or later"-license header to the python file. Please contact us if you intended a different license. 2009-04-12 Felix Riemann <> * configure.ac: * plugins/slideshowshuffle/Makefile.am: * plugins/slideshowshuffle/slideshowshuffle.eog-plugin.desktop.in: * plugins/slideshowshuffle/slideshowshuffle.py: Add plugin to randomize image order during slideshows. Fixes bug #526135 (Johannes Marbach).
*** Bug 552932 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***