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Bug 338603 - Collection should size to show an exact number of rows
Collection should size to show an exact number of rows
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: eog
Classification: Core
Component: collection
2.14.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: EOG Maintainers
EOG Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-04-15 15:09 UTC by Andrew Conkling
Modified: 2007-08-27 20:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Andrew Conkling 2006-04-15 15:09:13 UTC 
Currently, the image collection pane can be any size, however it is not very
useful (or aesthetically appealing) to show partial rows.  Rather, I think the
pane should "snap" to show exactly X number of rows.

Additionally, I think it should be defaulted to exactly one or two rows when
opened.  (I'm not sure which would be more useful.)

Lastly, I think it should maintain its height when the window size changes
vertically, rather than being resized with the image pane (i.e. both are resized).
Comment 1 Lucas Rocha 2006-04-17 04:48:01 UTC 
This is the aproach we're planning in eog-ng branch. This branch is under heavy developement. I suggest you to test it and give some more feedback here. Confirming.
Comment 2 Claudio Saavedra 2007-01-06 05:37:54 UTC 
This is fixed in the eog-ng branch, right?
Comment 3 Lucas Rocha 2007-01-06 16:52:19 UTC 
Hmm, not exactly. If I understood correctly, this is a request to make image collection pane "snap" to heights that shows the whole thumbnails, not part of them. Maybe we should put this in because users can complain that now they can't show more thumbnails at once in more than one row.
Comment 4 Tobias Wolf 2007-01-22 01:16:58 UTC 
I have not even seen this in place but I will be the first complainer ;-)

The good and trusted collection pane is a "contact sheet".
The new version/vision is a "negative strip".

For me the contact sheet is the way more useful visualization of a lot of images. And, before you object, it is not a duplication of nautilus thumbnails, since I cannot instruct nautilus to collate all the images I want in one window.

Oh, and if the "Organizr" is your model, I hate it. It takes an age and a half to get from one side to the other. Totally nerve-sawing.

And about the snapping, if that means jerky scrolling instead of smooth scrolling, I would be against it. It’s much easier to keep orientated in a list with smooth pursuit than with saccades (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_pursuit).
Comment 5 Lucas Rocha 2007-04-29 17:47:25 UTC 
The implemented solution in trunk allows you to set a one row|column pane or a resizable one. Also you can set the thumbnails pane position to bottom, top, right and left. We don't have the preferences UI for those settings yet.
Comment 6 Lucas Rocha 2007-08-27 20:36:05 UTC 
We'll stay with one-row thumbnails pane as default and official layout. Power users can change this by setting special gconf keys. I consider this bug fixed then.